Angels Don`t Play This HAARP

Environmental Warfare?
The U. S. Government has a new ground-based "Star Wars" weapon
which is being tested in the remote bush country of Alaska. This new
system manipulates the environment in a way which can:
• Disrupt human mental processes.
• Jam all global communications systems.
• Change weather patterns over large areas.
• Interfere with wildlife migration patterns.
• Negatively affect your health.
• Unnaturally impact the Earth's upper atmosphere.
The U.S. military calls its zapper HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral
Research Project). But this skybuster is not about the Northern Lights.
This device will turn on lights never intended to be artificially
manipulated.
Their first target is the electrojet - a river of electricity that flows
thousands of miles through the sky and down into the polar icecap. The
electrqjet will become a vibrating artificial antenna for sending
electromagnetic radiation raining down on the earth. The U.S. military
can then "X-ray" the earth and talk to submarines. But there's much
more they can do with HAARP. This book reveals surprises from secret
meetings.
PROJECT CENSORED - a prestigious panel of journalists judged HAARP to be in the top ten under-reported news stories of 1994.
POPULAR SCIENCE - As a front-cover story, HAARP began to be
revealed in September, 1995. This book is - the rest of the story.
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project is
The HAARP that Angels Don't Play.
About the Authors
Dr. Nick Begich is the eldest son of
the late United States Congressman from
Alaska, Nick Begich Sr., and political
activist Pegge Begich. He is well known in
Alaska for his own political activities. He
was twice elected President of both the
Alaska Federation of Teachers and the
Anchorage Council of Education. He has
been pursuing independent research in the
sciences and politics for most of his adult
life. Begich received his doctorate in
traditional medicine from The Open
International University for Complementary Medicines in November, 1994.
He co-authored the book Earth Rising The Revolution: Toward a Thousand
Years of Peace with James Roderick in
January 2000. He is also the editor of
Earthpulse Flashpoints, a new-science book
series. Begich has published articles in
science, politics and education and is a well
known lecturer, having presented throughout the United States and in nineteen
countries. He has been featured as a guest
on thousands of radio broadcasts, reporting
on his research activities including new
technologies, health and earth science
related issues. He has also appeared on
dozens of television documentaries and
other programs throughout the world
including BBC-TV, CBC-TV, TeleMundo,
and others.
Begich has served as an expert witness and
speaker before the European Parliament.
He has spoken on various issues for
groups representing citizen concerns,
statesmen and elected officials, scientists
and others. He is the publisher and co-
owner of Earthpulse Press and is also
under contract as Tribal Planner for the
Chickaloon Village Council, a federally
recognized American Indian Tribe of the
Athabascan Indian Nation.
Dr. Begich is married to Shelah BegichSlade and has five children. He resides just
north of Anchorage in the community of
Eagle River, Alaska, USA.
Jeane Manning is an experienced
magazine journalist, reporter for daily
newspapers and former editor of a
community newspaper. A decade of researching nonconventional electrical energy
technologies culminated in her book The
Coming Energy Revolution (Avery
Publishing Group, NY, 1996). She is
co-author of a 1994 book published by
Auckland Institute of Technology Press,
New Zealand, Suppressed Inventions and
other Discoveries. Born in Cordova,
Alaska, she tracked HAARP with deep
interest. She now lives in Vancouver,
Canada.
CONTENTS
TIMELINE .......................................................................1
Foreword............................................................................5
Introduction.......................................................................8
CHAPTERS
PART ONE: THE PEOPLE WAKE UP TO HAARP
1 The Sorcerer's Apprentices ..........................................11
2 Trail from Tesla to Star Wars ......................................17
3 What's going on Up There?.......................................... 23
4 Skybusters Under Secrecy............................................31
5 High on the Sky............................................................40
6 Northern Exposure....................................................... 47
7 In the Wilderness .........................................................52
PART TWO: SCIENTISTS ARE CONCERNED
8 Who Can Stop the Big Zapper?....................................60
9 Tesla's Weather Apprentices .......................................66
10 Putting the Heat on Mom Earth..................................75
PART THREE: ELECTROPAINTINGS IN THE SKY
11 The Compilers.............................................................84
12 Twisted Words, Star Wars and Poker Flats ................. 86
13 Star Wars -- Company Control ....................................90
14 "The Project's Not Classified" ..................................... 94
15 The Twelve Patents of APTI -Technically Tesla................. 97
16 Turning on a Billion Watts .............................................. 109
17 Nuclear Excavation - Creating the Bay............................. 111
18 Thermonuclear Weapons Replaced by Electropulse ..........114
19 Charged Particle Rain Critical Omission.......................... 118
20 Blurred Visions of the Military ......................................... 121
21 Race with the Russians .....................................................131
22 Entrain the Brain to go Insane?......................................... 134
23 Psychocivilized Society and the CIA ............................... 140
24 Zapping the "Nonlethal" Way ...........................................151
PART FOUR: STOP THE MUSIC
25 Playing the HAARP.........................................................171
26 Soft Sell, The Environmental Impact Statement................173
27 Pandora's Box the Great Temptation.................................176
28 Power and Control-The End of Freedom........................ 179
29 A Clear Note.................................................................... 183
Glossary ................................................................................ 191
Illustrations ........................................................................... 192
Updates ................................................................................. 206
Looking Through The Earth...................................................210
Resource Guide..................................................................... 215
This illustration shows the ionosphere's relationship to the Earth.
The illustration appeared in the HAARP Environmental Impact
Statement on page 10-125 of Volume II.
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MESSING WITH 'MOTHER EARTH' AND HER KIDS
ELECTROMAGNETICALLY:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVENTS & DISCOVERIES
1886-8: Nikola Tesla invents system of Alternating Current (AC) power
source and transmission system. As 60-pulse-per-second (Hertz) AC power grids
spread over the land, Mom Earth will eventually dance to a different beat than her
usual 7-8 Hertz frequency.
1900: Tesla applies for patent on a device to "Transmit Electrical Energy
Through the Natural Mediums".
1905: U.S. Patent #787,412 issued for above.
1924.: Confirmation that radio waves bounce off ionospherel (electrically
charged layer starting at altitude of 50 kilometers).
1938: Scientist proposes to light up night sky by electron gyrotron heating
from a powerful transmitter.
1940: Tesla announces "death ray" invention.
1945: Atomic bomb tests begin - 40,000 electromagnetic pulses to follow.
1952: W.O. Schumann identifies 7.83 Hertz resonant frequency of the earth.
1958: Van Allen radiation belts discovered (zones of charged particles trapped in
earth's magnetic field) 2,000+ miles up. Violently disrupted in the same year.
1958: Project Argus, U.S. Navy explodes three nuclear bombs in Van Allen
belt.
1958: White House advisor on weather modification says Defense Department
studying ways to manipulate charges "of earth and sky, and so affect the
weather".
1960: Series of weather disasters begin.2
1961?: Copper needles dumped into ionosphere as "telecommunications
shield".3
1 Victor A. Schmidt, Planet Earth and the New Geoscience. Kendall/Hunt, Iowa, 1986, pg. 428
2 Editor's page, "Weather Modification",Saturday Review 2/5/1977.
3 Keesings Historisch Archief, courtesy of Nigel Harle, Netherlands,
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1961: Scientists propose artificial ion cloud experiments. In 1960's the
dumping of chemicals (barium powder etc.) from satellites/rockets began. 4
1961-62: U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. create many electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) in
the atmosphere; 300 megatons of nuclear devices deplete ozone layer by about
4%.5
1962: Launch of Canadian satellites & start of stimulating plasma resonances
by antennas within the space plasma.6
1966: Gordon J. F. MacDonald publishes military ideas on environmental
engineering.7
1960's: In Wisconsin, US Navy Project Sanguine lays extremely low
frequency (ELF) antennae.
1968: Moscow scientists tell the West that they have pinpointed which pulsed
magnetic field frequencies help mental and physiological functions and which
frequencies do harm. 8
1972: First reports on "ionospheric heater" experiments with high frequency
radio waves, at Arecibo.9 A 100 megawatt heater in Norway built later in decade
can change conductivity of auroral ionosphere. 10
1973: Documentation that launch of Skylab "halved the total electron content
of the ionosphere for three hours"(by rocket exhaust gases). 11,12
1973: Recommendations for study of Project Sanguine's biological effects
denied by Navy. 13
1974: United Nations General Assembly bans environmental warfare.
4 Manfred Scholer, "On the Motion of Artificial Ion Clouds in the Magnetosphere", Planet Space Sci.
1970, Vol. 18 pp 977 to 1004. Printed in Northern Ireland.
5 National Academy of Sciences, "Long-Term Effects of Multiple Nuclear-Weapon Detonation", 1975
pges. 6-7.
6 Michael J. Rycroft, "Active Experiments in Space Plasmas" Nature vol. 287 4 Sept. 1980, pg, 7.
7 Lowell Ponte, The Cooling. Prentice-Hall, NJ, 1976, pg. 166-7
8 Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder Super Memory: The Revolution. Carroll & Graf, NY, pg. 303.
9 W.E. Gordon and H.C, Carlson/'Arecibo Heating Experiments", Radio Science,Vol. 9, No.11, pges
1041-7, Nov. 1974.
10 Michael J. Rycroft, "Active Experiments in Space Plasmas", Nature Vol. 287, Sept. 1980, pg. 7.
11 Michael J. Rycroft, "Ionospheric Hole Caused by Rocket Engine", Nature Vol. 297, June 1982,
pg. 537.
12 Michael Mendillo, Gerald S. Hawkins, John A. Klobuchar, "A Sudden Vanishing of the
Ionospheric F Region Due to the Launch of Skylab", Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 80 No.
16, June 1, 1975, pg. 2217.
13 Robert O. Becker, Cross Currents. Jeremy Tarcher LA 1990, pg. 201-3.
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1974: High frequency experiments at Plattesville, Colorado; Arecibo, Puerto
Rico; and, Armidale, New South Wales heat "bottom side of ionosphere". 14
1974: Experiments - airglow brightened by hitting oxygen atoms in
ionosphere with accelerated electrons.
1975: Stanford professor Robert Helliwell reports that very low frequency
(VLF) from power lines is altering the ionosphere. 15
1975: U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson forces Navy to release research showing
that extremely low frequency (ELF) transmissions can alter human blood
chemistry. 16
1975: Pell Senate Subcommittee urges that weather and climate modification
work be overseen by civilian agency answerable to U.S. Congress. Didn't
happen.
1975: Soviets begin pulsing "Woodpecker" extremely low frequency (ELF)
waves, at key brainwave rhythms. 17 Eugene, Oregon, one of locations where
people were particularly affected.
1976: Drs. Susan Bawin & W. Ross Adey show nerve cells affected by ELF
fields. 18
1979: Launch of NASA's third High-Energy Astrophysical Observatory causes
large scale, artificially induced depletion in the ionosphere. Plasma hole caused
by "rapid chemical processes" between rocket exhaust and ozone layer." 19
"Ionosphere was significantly depleted over a horizontal distance of 300 km for
some hours."
1985: Bernard J. Eastlund applies for patent "Method and Apparatus for
Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere and/or
Magnetosphere," (First of three Eastlund patents assigned to ARCO Power
Technologies Inc.)
14 G. Meltz, F.W. Perkins, "Ionospheric Modification Theory: Past, Present and Future", Radio
Science, Vol. 9, No. 11, Nov. 1974.
15 Lowell Ponte, The Cooling. Prentice-Hall, NJ.1976, pg. 169.
16 Ibid., pg, 168.
17 Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, Super-Memorv: The Revolution. Carol & Graf Publishers,
NY 1991, pg. 299.
18 Dr, Robert O. Becker, Cross-Currents: The Perils of Elecropollution The Promise of
Electromedicine Jeremy Tarcher, LA 1990, pg. 233
19 Michael Mendillo, Donald Rote, Paul A. Bernhardt, "Preliminary Report of the HEAO Hole in the
Ionosphere", American Geophysical Union, EOS, Vol, 61, No. 28, July 8, 1980, pg. 529.
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1986: U.S. Navy Project Henhouse duplicates Delgado (Madrid) experiment very low level, very low frequency pulsed magnetic fields harm chick embryos.
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1980's: In the later part of the decade the U.S. begins network of Ground Wave
Emergency Network (GWEN) towers, each to generate Very Low Frequency
(VLF) waves for defense purposes .
1987-92: Other Arco Power Technologies Incorporated (APTI) scientists build
on Eastlund patents for development of new weapon capabilities.
1994: Military contractor E-Systems buys APTI, holder of Eastlund patents and
contract to build biggest ionospheric heater in world High-frequency Active
Auroral Research Project (HAARP).
1994: Congress freezes funding on HAARP until planners increase emphasis
on earth penetrating tomography uses, for nuclear counterproliferation efforts.
1995: Raytheon buys E-Systems and old APTI patents. The technology is now
hidden among thousands of patents within one of the largest defense contractor
portfolios.
1995: Congress budgets $10 million for
counterproliferation" efforts for HAARP project.
1996
under
"nuclear
1995: HAARP planners to test patent number 5,041,834 in September.
1994-6: Testing of first stage HAARP equipment continues, although funding
was frozen.
1996: HAARP planners to test the earth penetrating tomography applications
by modulating the electroject at ELF frequencies.
1998: The European Parliament's Subcommittee on Security and Disarmament
holds a hearing on HAARP on February 5, 1998. Coauthor Begich presents on
HAARP and new weapon technologies.
2001-17: Projected period for HAARP operations. Fully operating HAARP
developmental proto-type system by early part of the period.
20 Dr. Robert O. Becker. Cross-Currents: The Perils of Elecropollution, The Promise of
Electromedicine, Jeremy Tarcher, LA ,1990
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Updates - September 2001
In February 1998, while testifying before the European Parliament, I
indicated that the United States would violate the Anti-Ballistics Missile (ABM)
Treaty with the former Soviet Union. I asserted that the United States would take the
position that because the Soviet Union had dissolved, the agreement was no longer
valid. On this point, the Members of the Committee could not agree with us because
most believed that the United States would honor the agreement, recognizing the
Treaty as a stabilizing document for the entire world. In less than ten months from our
pronouncement, the United States announced their new initiative for a missile defense
system outside of the Treaty. United States Senator Ted Stevens made the arguments
just as predicted.
The original ABM Treaty allowed only one defense system in each country the United States and the Soviet Union. It had been our contention that HAARP
represented research which would lead to me eventual deployment of a new missile
defense system based in Alaska. We also made clear that me United States was
moving forward with new technologies while giving the world, and our allies, the
impression mat there was a real effort underway toward reductions in arms. The
reality, time would demonstrate, was a new race toward the new technology.
What Ever Happened to Star Wars?
Remember Star Wars, the concept which would move the theater of war to
space? In 1995, the funding for Star Wars was widely reported as a dead issue when full
funding was defeated by the United States Congress. However, Star Wars did not end
as many unpopular programs do - they just get new names.
"This year the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (once called the
Strategic Defense Initiative) got $3.7 billion. That's up from $2.8
billion in 1995, and is very near the peak level spent during the Cold
War."21
The problem was that the United States was not fully covered under its
single ABM system, leaving Alaska and Hawaii unprotected. Alaska produces about
22% of U.S. oil requirements, holds all 33 strategic minerals in commercial quantities
and represents tremendous natural resource wealth. Hawaii is a strategic point for the
entire Pacific presence of the United States military. These two areas, in the
estimation of military planners, had to be protected. The need for a system to protect
Alaska and Hawaii is acknowledged and we agree that these regions should be
protected. We believe that this could be accomplished in a more open and honest way,
particularly when it affects our allies and the American public.
What is interesting is that the billions spent on Star Wars systems, which
these became known as, were only for "research," according to the military's mission
statements. The technology is being advanced in the hope that a system might be
developed early in the next century. The external threats are now being characterized
as "rogue states and terrorist organizations" which might gain nuclear weapon
delivery technologies. While the threats are not imagined and need to be addressed, it
is not responsible to create word games which end public debate and allow systems
21. Fox, Adrienne. "Star wars: Force Not With Us, US Remains Defenseless Against Missile
Attack." Investor's Business Daily, Aug. 25, 1997. EPI150
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thought to be discontinued the latitude to proceed.
In another "offshoot of the Reagan administration's Strategic Defense
Initiative" satellite-disabling lasers have been developed. A test, at less than full
power, was performed at the end of 1997 to demonstrate the ability of the system to
hit its target. The demonstration was a success and now many are concerned that this
may provoke an arms race in space."22
What has become clear is that what the United States says to its citizens,
friends and adversaries tends to be variations of the same misinformation and
manipulations of the facts.
HAARP
This is where our story began. HAARP - The High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program is a joint project of the United States Air Force and Navy, based in
Alaska. The project is a research program designed to study the ionosphere in order
to develop new weapons technology.
The HAARP system is designed to manipulate the ionosphere, a layer which
begins about thirty miles above the earth. The transmitter or HAARP device on the
ground is a phased array antenna system - a large field of antennas designed to work
together in focusing radio-frequency energy for manipulating the ionosphere. The
radio frequency energy can be pulsed, shaped, and altered in ways never possible with
other transmitters or at the power levels of this new facility.
The device will have an effective-radiated-power of 1 billion watts when
completed in the first phase of the project. It will be used for "earth penetrating
tomography" (looking through layers of the earth to locate underground facilities or
minerals), communications with submarines, to manipulate communication of
others, over-the-horizon radar, energy transfers from one part of the world to another,
creating artificial plasma (energy) layers or patches in the ionosphere, to alter
weather and may be used as an anti-satellite weapon. The story of HAARP and its
related technology is a part of the puzzle of a "Revolution in Military Affairs" being
pursued by the United States government, but it is only a small part.
"Millions of dollars have gone to Alaska universities to harness the power
of the aurora borealis, the electrical energy shimmering in the northern skies... The
earmarks also financed, among other things, 'a supercomputer north of the Arctic
Circle' without naming the University of Alaska. Fairbanks as the beneficiary."23
Early on in the HAARP project there was confusion about "harnessing the energy of
the aurora" (the northern lights) for use by the military. The real use appears to be for
over-the-horizon effects, communications and ABM defense-related research. The
University of Alaska again is the recipient of a supercomputer for "academic"
research. The reality once again is that the University is being used to conduct
military experiments for advanced weapon systems without full public disclosure or
debate.
The above updated material is quoted from the book Earth Rising - The
Revolution: Toward a Thousand Years of Peace by Dr. Nick Begich and James
Roderick
22. Richter, Paul, "Army laser zaps satellite." Anchorage Daily News, Oct. 21, 1997. EPI426
23. Weiner, Tim. "Universities tap Congress' deep pockets." Anchorage Daily News, Aug. 24, 1999.
EPI563
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Immediate Release
Dr. Nick Begich founder of Earthpulse Press and co-author of Angel's Don't Play This
HAARP and Earth Rising the Revolution, delivered a lecture on Arctic issues and
HAARP in Brussels in the European Parliament on May 5-7, 1997 at the 12th General
Assembly Globe International. In attendance were several members of the Russian
Duma including Vitaliy Sevastyanov one of the delegates listed below. Dr. Begich's
book, an expose' published in September 1996, launched the international
investigation into the issues surrounding HAARP.
US HAARP Weapon Development Concerns Russian Duma
Interfax News Agency - August 9, 2002
"MOSCOW (Interfax) - The Russian State Duma has expressed concern about the
USA's programme to develop a qualitatively new type of weapon.
"Under the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme (HAARP)
[website address: http://server5550.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/], the USA is
creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium
with high-frequency radio waves," the State Duma said in an appeal circulated on
Thursday [8 August].
"The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the
transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear
weapons. This new type of weapons differs from previous types in that the near-Earth
medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component.
These conclusions were made by the commission of the State Duma's
international affairs and defence committees, the statement reads: The committees
reported that the USA is planning to test three facilities of this kind. One of them is
located on the military testing ground in Alaska and its full-scale tests are to begin in
early 2003. The second one is in Greenland and the third one in Norway.
"When these facilities are launched into space from Norway, Alaska and
Greenland, a closed contour will be created with a truly fantastic integral potential for
influencing the near-Earth medium," the State Duma said.
The USA plans to carry out large-scale scientific experiments tinder the
HAARP programme, and not controlled by the global community, will create
weapons capable of breaking radio communication lines and equipment installed on
spaceships and rockets, provoke serious accidents in electricity networks and in oil
and gas pipelines and have a negative impact on the mental health of people
populating entire regions, the deputies said.
They demanded that an international ban be put on such large-scale
geophysical experiments.
The appeal, signed by 90 deputies, has been sent to President Vladimir
Putin, to the UN and other international organizations, to the parliaments and leaders
of the UN member countries, to the scientific public and to mass media outlets.
Among those who signed the appeal are Tatyana Astrakhankina, Nikolay
Kharitonov, Yegor Ligachev, Sergey Reshulskiy, Vitaliy Sevastyanov, Viktor
Cherepkov, Valentin Zorkaltsev and Aleksey Mitrofanov."
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INTRODUCTION
Raising the Roof of the World
A four-year old child in his sandbox looks up at a blue sky with his eyes full
of trust. His mother places a straw hat on his head, dabs sun blocking cream on his
freckled nose, and expects that, because she shielded him from the sun's ultraviolet
rays, he is safe from harmful radiations. But is he? Both his body and his planet are
being penetrated by an unprecedented mix of man-caused radiations, and now the U.S.
military plans to stir up the mix even further. They could go too far this time.
This book is about people who search for the truth about the Pentagon's
project that is quietly being built at a remote outpost in Alaska. The $30 million
project euphemistically named HAARP (High frequency Active Auroral Research
Program) is made to beam more than 1.7 gigawatts (billion watts) of radiated power
into the ionosphere - the electrically-charged layer above Earth's atmosphere.
Put simply, the apparatus is a reversal of a radio telescope - just
transmitting instead of receiving. It will "boil the upper atmosphere".24 After
disturbing the ionosphere, the radiations will bounce back onto the earth in the form
of long waves which penetrate our bodies, the ground and the oceans.
Could the invasion of radiations damage plants and animal life on the
ground? One technician/researcher told National Public Radio affiliate KCHU, "I can
hardly find an expert who knows anything about this, because they're all working for
the government. Or working for a university which by proxy is for the government,
because they're funded either through (defense subcontracts) contracts or through
grants from the Department of Defense."
"Working for the government" can certainly be an honorable position. But
in the case of science, it gets in the way of objectivity and courage to explore.
Throughout this century, scientists are increasingly hesitant to investigate freely
outside their specialty. They are all too aware that the military/industrial/academic
complex decides who gets the lucrative grant, consultancy or academic position.
However, there are independent experts such as those who looked into HAARP. They
speak out in the pages of this book.
These researchers learned that HAARP represents a technology which could
lead to a new class of weapons that could change our world profoundly - an
all-purpose military tool. If misused, the tool could mess up the weather. It could be
used against humanity in a way that would change what people think, believe and
feel. It could be used for good or evil, just as a harp can produce the music of Mozart or
the melody of a death march.
24 Electronics tecnnician Eric Nashlund describing HAARP for National Public Radio, KCHU Apr.
27, 1994.
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Many technological "notes" could be played by HAARP-type military
experiments. They can:
* manipulate global weather;
* hurt ecosystems;
* knock out electronic communications; or
* change our moods and mental states.
That last item will surprise researchers who have been looking only at the
possible environmental effects of HAARP-type technologies. However, the authors
believe that no sane person wants to be manipulated into artificially-induced moods
or actions, and that these possibilities are real. As you will see in the research cited in
this book, U.S. decisionmakers for the first time are proposing to mix military and
civilian police resources, under the banner of "non-lethal" weaponry for crowd
control and other purposes.
This book looks at what can be done with modulated radio frequencies - the stuff of
the HAARP experiments - and what environmental effects the experiments could
trigger.
The intent of this book is to call for a moratorium on use of the super powerful
ionospheric heaters until independent scientists and other nonmilitary
decisionmakers can have an educated look at what the experimenters could do. To put
it simply, no one is supervising the big boys who have the big toys and the fat black
wallets.
Despite the end of the Cold War, their allowances are still enviable. Even with some
cutbacks to their spending, the military gets more than other sectors, For example,
the Clinton administration as of May 1995 planned to spend at least $15 billion on
"theater defense missile" systems in the next seven years.25 We contend that it's
time for the public to take a closer look at how such money is used. It is being used to
raise the roof of the world.
The authors' purpose is not to scare you, but instead to inform you on underreported crucial issues, and to provide sources for more information. HAARP has been
misrepresented by both the military/contractors and by its opponents. It's time to
open up the debate to bring in an informed public, In these pages you will meet some
of the people, from the Alaskan bush to a Princeton science laboratory, who
courageously dug into the topic and, in the process, mobilized many other people.
25 Pilita Clark, "Australia, 05 Missile Deal for Star Wars II", Sydney Morning Herald, May 19, 1995.
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"This project has nothing to do with musical
instruments or the natural aurora."
Clare Zickuhr, former accountant for ARCO, and HAARP researcher.
PART ONE
The People Wake Up To HAARP
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"Tesla appeared as a real-life sorcerer, depicting...the ability to tame mysterious
natural phenomena to the will of the human species." Marc J.Seifer, Ph.D.
Chapter One
THE SORCERERS APPRENTICES
Lightning flickered and thunder crashed through the mountain air as if cued
up to open the International Tesla Society's July 1986 symposium. A woman admired
the jagged streaks of light as she walked from downtown Colorado Springs to the
College of the Canyon.
The display of light and sound seemed to have a life of its own, and triggered
thoughts ahout Earth's life-protecting layers. The layers appear immensely deep to a
human looking up from a sidewalk. But the few hundred miles of depth of the
atmospheric layers are, to the planet, as a film of paint is to a student's desk globe.26
Unlike layers of paint, however, the atmospheric veils swirl and flow and interact.
She found comfort in thinking that surely no one could tame Earth's
dynamic atmosphere. Granted, nature is under siege elsewhere. Engineers straighten
undulating wild rivers and slap them into concrete flood-control channels. They
shave Earth's forests and drain unruly tidal marshes. But who is arrogant enough to
say that they own the sky?
After a brief downpour, the storm curtain opened to an electric blue sky, and
the air sparkled with vitality. "No wonder Tesla did his most dramatic experiments
here," Jeane Manning thought.
As a freelance journalist, she was in Colorado to learn more about the work
of some maverick engineers and their hero, the electrical genius Nikola Tesla. In her
research into non-conventional energy technologies, she had encountered more than
a few books about Tesla, and thought it strange that mainstream textbooks ignore
such a historical figure. In the nineteenth century he patented the alternating current
(AC) system now used to generate and send electrical power to every home along this
avenue, every building on the campus ahead and factories all over the world. His
genius did not stop there, however, and before he died in 1943 he had discovered more
radical inventions - apparently more than the tycoons of the early years of the
twentieth century wanted to see developed.
Manning was curious about the stories. Did Tesla really send electricity
more than twenty miles without wires? There was also the legend that Tesla invented a
"space energy receiver" and powered a Pierce-Arrow car in a demonstration of the
receiver. Yet he died penniless in 1943.
She expected this conference would give a broader picture of Tesla than her
impression of a would-be God of Lightning, a view that came from seeing
photographs of Tesla with bolts of light streaming from his fingertips. In front of
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audiences of New York's cultural elite in his laboratory, he had allowed hundreds of
thousands of volts to pass over his body and light up lamps, melt metal and explode
small light bulbs. It was a don't try this at home scene, with the sLender inventor
sprayed with crackling electrical current as he stood stork like on insulated shoes.
Manning was fascinated at the thought of the elegant Tesla showing off for his
cultured friends, in his laboratory lit with dazzling, pulsating waves of light in
unearthly warm hues.27, 28
In the college where the conference was held, she picked up a press pass,
then joined two hundred or so spectators in Armstrong auditorium. Onstage,
man-made lightning sizzled through the air, zig-zagging from a giant electrical
device called a Tesla coil which dwarfed three technicians. Blue light streaked along
the paths of fried air and members of the audience covered their ears against the
deafening electric buzz.
It looked lethal, but the demonstrator explained that although Tesla used
high voltage (electrical pressure) current, it was of such a high-frequency that it
danced over his skin instead of zapping his internal organs. A man sat on top of the
apparatus before the coil was turned on with a deafening roar, then long sparks
jumped from his fingers.
In other meeting rooms, would-be Gods of Lightning told about their
research. One of those speakers was Robert Golka, a sturdily built man with the cocky
personality of a lone adventurer. He prided himself on making fireballs by whatever
means - even from a circuit breaker in a railroad engine when he had slammed the
engine into reverse. A fireball, or ball lightning, is a glowing sphere of what looks
like gases. The speaker said that Nikola Tesla's "wireless power" experiments near
Colorado Springs made 30 second golfball-sized ball lightning in 1899.
Why would anyone want to play with lightning, in any shape? Golka was
explaining; ball lightning might hold the secrets of thermonuclear fusion and
eventually cheap power. He had rented an empty hangar in Wendover, Utah - the
hangar where the atomic bomb was loaded into a bomber for its death-drop debut and built a Tesla coil that was 51 feet wide for experiments. Golka spoke of voltages
of 15 million volts and lightning-like discharges forty feet long. He hinted that the
technology could be used as an "ultra-high megavolt source for particle beam
weaponry".
Manning wondered what the engineer on stage really wanted to do - send
electrical energy without wires or get a grant from the military. Or both. As if in
answer to her question, Golka began to talk about wireless power transmission.
Nikola Tesla had claimed to be able to send electrical energy without wires before the
turn of the century, and he envisioned people all around the globe sticking rods into
the earth to extract that energy - free. He didn't get to send power to the people,
however. After Tesla admitted to financier J.P. Morgan that an experimental tower on
Long Island was meant to send power as well as messages, his public career ended.
27 Hesearch by Dr. Marc J. Seifer, p. 1-33, Proceedings of 1988 International Teste Symposium,
available from International Tesla Society, PO Box 5636, Colorado Springs, CO 80931.
28 SUPPRESSED INVENTIONS, edited by Jon Eisen, Auckland Institute of Technology Press1994.
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Although he continued to invent and to learn, he was kicked out of the spotlight.
Corporate moguls who were interested in creating monopolies and metering electrical
power blackballed him.
Golka spoke about his own "Project Tesla", which involved building a
122-foot resonating tower high in the mountains. Manning struggled to understand
what he meant by his efforts to get "earth resonance". She could visualize the more
familiar resonance in musical instruments, and that helped to picture the earth
vibrating as if its note was struck, If someone strikes a piano key of the same pitch as
a string on her violin nearby, for example, the string will vibrate. The pitch of a note
comes from how many times per second the sound vibrates. Similarly, the earth may
have a resonant frequency; if electrical oscillations pound through the earth at a
certain rate for a long enough time, the small periodic input may build up to a large
vibration. Could Tesla's knowledge about resonance really be used for advanced
technologies?
"We're losing to the Japanese," Golka insisted. "We have the technology
and we're sleeping on it,"
Another short, lively speaker, an engineering professor, said there is
"definite evidence that Nikola Tesla did excite the Schumann cavity in 1899". (This
cavity is the area between the earth and the electrically- charged ionosphere.)
A man from Albuquerque, New Mexico, brought the talk down to earth again
with a demonstration of a squat piece of equipment called The Tesla Earthquake
Oscillator. Stroking his beard - a trim gray goatee - he assured onlookers that the
oscillator would not be coupled to the earth during the demonstration and therefore
would not cause any earthquakes. The mechanical device had a frictionless piston in a
heavy casing. "This oscillator pounds the earth and impresses on it rhythmic
vibrations of certain controllable frequencies," he said. The sound vibrations would
bounce back and forth "in a reflection pattern which produces standing wave
overlappings, or nodes, which act as lenses to propagate waves which set up a
resonance condition."
There was that word "resonance" again. The electrical engineers talked about
a buildup of ever more powerful effects. Manning may have had a puzzled expression
on her face, because one man turned to her and offered to further explain resonance. He
gave the example of a child pushing a larger person on a swing. Small pushes,
correctly timed, gradually increase the distance through which the swing speeds. In
other words, small input at regular intervals can produce big effects. Resonance would
turn out to be an important concept, used deliberately or inadvertently by men who
try to tame the sky and in the process accidentally interfere with our weather, health
and minds. But Manning wouldn't encounter the skybusters until five years later.
In another meeting room, a graduate student from Montana State University,
Kyle Klicker, talked about the hypothesis of William Hooper, who gave new twists
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electrical fields are the same. What he called a "motional electric field" was different
from the well-known electrostatic fields; the motional electric field results in a force
that passes through lead. In other words, the field is unshieldable.
Electricity of a different quality? Manning wasn't ready for that; she was
still studying beginner-level books about standard electricity whenever she went to a
library. Over the previous few years she had realized that there was a shortage of
journalists looking into this scene. Engineering lectures were a long way from her
university training as a social-worker and job experience as a reporter, but she would
look back on this 1986 conference, and more than a dozen other energy conferences
to follow, as an introduction to the scene. They introduced her to the fast growing
field of study called "non-conventional energy technologies". Even the William
Hooper patent would turn up in her life again later, quoted in a "skybuster" document
that would frighten some otherwise- unflappable scientists.
In the 1986 meeting, however, she tried to narrow down what she was
learning in order to make sense of it. History; she could easily grasp history. Next on
the Tesla program was a man with a craggy face and the erect posture of a military
officer. Dr. Bill Jones of Los Angeles was a physicist, retired naval officer and former
Top Gun pilot, who spoke about Nikola Testa's place in history. Fortunately, Jones
ran through his talk at a much slower pace than the Mach 2 speed at which he had
flown fighter planes. This physicist made it clear that he wanted Tesla reinstated in a
place of honor in history. For example, Jones said, Guglielmo Marconi got
recognition for radio, but Tesla had demonstrated a remote-control boat in Madison
Square Gardens several years before Marconi's announcement. Dr. Jones also told
about incidents such as the time in 1911 when Tesla described how radar could work.
Tesla was too far ahead of his time to be heard. Six years later Tesla had offered his
invention of a particle-beam weapon to the U.S. Department of War, and was laughed
out of the war office. Again, he was too early in the century to be believed.
With a reporter's habit of taking notes, Manning penned the speaker's
words in a notebook. "What do we really know about magnetism?....What do we
really know about electrostatics?"
Dr. Jones talked about something described as "force potential manifested
by stress, and not necessarily in the presence of mass." Some researchers looked at
this force potential as being "scalar electromechanics". Mainstream scientists are
reluctant to accept these new and revolutionary ideas, Dr. Jones said, but the ideas
hold promise for clean energy technology.
On the last day of the conference as people flowed out of the auditorium, the crowd
eddied around a man of wiry build, probably in his late thirties, who was speaking in
an abrupt insistent voice that could be heard at the end of the hall.
"I object to this deliberate build-up of a cult around Tesla - referring to
things he never invented, never said, as Tesla science'!"
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The agitator was having a negative effect on the men arguing with him
about power-beaming inventions. He appeared to feed on their annoyance. Later in
the afternoon Manning again wandered out of the meeting hall for a mid-lecture
break, head throbbing with new concepts. The same loud-voiced man, whom we will
call Gregory Jones, was talking to another man and the two drew her into
conversation. Gregory had the bouncy energy of someone who was looking for a
quick laugh as well as an argument. Asked why he insults Nikola Tesla at a Tesla
symposium, he replied, "I like deflating idols."
This iconoclast was a full-time researcher regarding what he said is a subtle,
powerful but little-known dynamic energy which resides in the atmosphere and
nearly everywhere. He said a number of experiments have proven that a dynamic
non-material energy exists in all living forms.
Manning had enough of wild concepts for one day. However, at a gut level
she felt that it was true. Living people, animals, plants and even the atmosphere
seemed to exude some type of electricity or vitality when in a healthy state and when
free from the effects of pollution. Was it possible that official science really doesn't
know much about something so basic, because the measuring instruments hadn't yet
been invented to detect it?
Gregory was saying that the coarse form of electricity used in nineteenfhand twentieth-century technologies is an irritant to the primal form of energy in the
air. According to that worldview, if Tesla had been able to send electricity wirelessly
all over the world, it would have been an ecological disaster.
"Humans. My least-favorite species!" Gregory bellowed, following the
embarrassed journalist toward the door to the meeting hall. "Listen to this. I just
about got myself kicked out of the meeting. I went up to the speaker; you heard his
talk?"
The electrical engineering professor with a Ph.D. that Gregory mentioned
had seemed highly respected by the audience. The scientist had done much
experimenting toward the goal of repeating Tesla's wireless electricity experiments.
He had talked about wanting to "resonate the Schumann cavity". But Gregory was no
respecter of academic degrees; he apparently had caused another commotion in the
hallway by confronting this professor. "1 told him that if he tried to be another Tesla,
he could cause the biggest ecological disaster we've ever had."
In Gregory's view, it was fortunate for the planet that Tesla's tower on Long
Island - intended to broadcast power around the earth - was never completed. After the
banker J .P. Morgan withdrew funding, no other financier would touch the project. It
was just as well; the project would have been insane, Gregory insisted. Whether they
send their electrical power through the air or through the earth, he said, these
experimenters would be playing with our planet on a big scale.
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"So what did the professor say?"
"He said 'well, we'll just have to try it and find out'."
Hearing this, Manning stood in silence. Gregory's concern for his planet's
natural systems felt sincere. He asked for her business card. To her surprise, he would
telephone her occasionally for about six years, and he would turn out to be
ferociously intelligent, and the most relentless information-seeker she would meet in
the coming years of travels to conferences of inventors and other energy researchers.
She was careful to pass on to him only non-confidential information from published
sources, never fully trusting Gregory because of his extremism. But she did appreciate
the long-distance calls over the next few years to educate her about what he called
"mad science".
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"If Tesla's resonance effects, as shown by the Stanford team, can control enormous
energies by minuscule triggering signals, then...with Godlike arrogance, we someday
may yet direct the stars in their courses. "29
Frederic Jueneman, 1974.
Chapter Two
TRAIL FROM TESLA TO STAR WARS
After she returned home to Vancouver, Canada, Manning reported to a new
friend who wanted to hear about the Tesla conference. He was John Hutchison, an
inventor who had discovered an anomalous "anti-gravity" effect some years earlier
while he had been restoring antique electrical equipment and building Tesla coils.
During the previous years, unofficial delegations from Canadian and United States
military groups had visited his laboratory to see the "Hutchison effect". Now he was
working alone; the visitors had apparently learned all that they came to learn. His
requests for copies of the videos they filmed in his laboratory were met with "sorry;
we destroyed all those videos because there wasn't anything on them." He didn't
believe it.
John Hutchison told Manning some of the amusing twists of his search for
reports about his experiments. "I was phoning the Pentagon and asking for 'John
South', because I was told that was the name of one of the guys who were here in my
lab. By chance a secretary put me through to the man 1 described, and it turns out his
name was Col. John Alexander."
The name would come up again more than five years later, as Manning
gradually found out what else could be done with "Tesla technology" - so-called
nonlethal weaponry. John Hutchison described Col. Alexander as a handsome,
personable man who was a fun guy to be around throughout the days of the
"anti-gravity" experiments in the "Vancouver laboratory.
Hutchison had leisure time to chat with Manning in a now-silent
laboratory. He shared Tesla lore about beamed weaponry, and told her that the Soviet
Union was mysteriously experimenting with radio-frequency signals, beaming them
toward North America. Beginning in late 1976 he had been one of many ham radio
operators who began picking up the 10-Hertz (cycles, "beats" or pulses per second)
frequencies on radio receivers. Hams called these signals "the Soviets' Woodpecker"
because of the sharp tapping they heard from the extremely low frequency (ELF)
waves. Some researchers speculated that the Woodpecker signal was a Tesla-type
weapon for mind control, because the ELF was at a frequency which could resonate
with neurons in the human brain, and the transmission could be a carrier wave that
was modulated (varied in amplitude, frequency or phase) to carry a hidden effect.
"Spoo-kyyy," she joked, dismissing what seemed to be a paranoid
speculation,
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Manning learned more about Nikola Testa two years later, after another
symposium in Colorado Springs. One of the papers in the proceedings of that
meeting was by a historian and psychology professor, Dr. Marc Seifer. She would
recall it years later when learning about unpublicized experiments in lighting up the
upper atmosphere.
Seifer gave Tesla credit for inventing fluorescent lights, just as the revered
American inventor Thomas Edison is the inventor of the incandescent light bulb. The
biographer notes that Tesla and Edison clashed over Edison's insistence that the
country should stick to his direct current (DC) technologies for electrical lighting and
power distribution. Tesla's AC system was better because AC electricity can travel
hundreds of miles over power lines at high voltages, while a wire carrying DC would
be unable to light bulbs a mile away from the generating plant.
Strangely, Edison was the one who was lionized in American history books.
One of the stories that is told and retold, for example, is how he sent men to the
Amazon to look for materials for the best filament for his light bulb. Edison's
persistence is highly praised. However, most people today are unaware that Tesla's
demonstrations showed the filament to be superfluous - not needed for electric lights.
Using very high-frequencies (increased vibrations of the electrical current), he
showed that the action of the air was more important than the filament. And thus he
out-'Edisoned' Edison, said Dr. Seifer.
Seifer pulled together parts from 53 reference works, in his presentation
"Nikola Tesla: The History of Lasers and Particle Beam Weapons".30 For an example
of Tesla research, two brothers, both scientists, traveled to the Tesla Museum in
Yugoslavia and read materials not available in North America. They suggested that
Testa's particle-beam work evolved from his pioneering experiments with X-rays, as
well as from his idea of lighting up the skies with his "magnifying transmitter" by
beaming up electrical energy to the stratosphere (a level of the atmosphere above the
clouds - about seven to thirty-one miles above the ground).
"That would be some light-up display!" Manning thought as she read the
article. However, she wondered about the wisdom of treating the upper atmosphere as
if it were merely gases in a giant fluorescent bulb.
She winced as she read a list of military uses for Tesla's many inventions:
earthquake contrivances, world radar, particle beam weapons and brain wave
manipulation. "One or more magnifying transmitters could theoretically send
destructive impulses through the earth to any location," said Seifer. "For instance, a
well-placed jolt of many millions of volts could theoretically destroy the
communications network of any major city."
30 Dr. Marc J. Seifer, "Nikola Tesla: The History of Lasers and Particle Beam Weapons",
Proceedings of 1988 International Tesla Symposium.
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Seifer had been intrigued by issues that emerged from his investigation:
- Particle beam weaponry was such a high-level secret that President Jimmy
Carter, for example, "was screened from vital technical developments by the
bureaucracy of the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency" (according to General
George Keegan, former head of Air Force Intelligence);
- Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio, was mentioned, in
regard to the air force base's use of bright young geniuses to attempt a
breakthrough
in Tesla technology.
Based on FBI files as well as other literature, Seifer concluded, "Great
support is lent to the hypothesis that Tesla's work and papers were systematically
hidden from public view in order to protect the trail of this top secret work, which
today is known as Star Wars."
It was a paradox, Nikola Tesla's name was indeed invoked when describing
proposed technologies that are as potentially planet- cleansing as "free energy" non-polluting power generation. At the same time he was credited with inventing
weapons which could be used for the Strategic Defense Initiative (S.D.I., popularly
known as Star Wars). And his "wireless power" engineering experiments may have
led to a disaster in Siberia, Manning later learned from scientist Oliver Nichelson.
Tesla's love of nature seemed to be a contradiction to his desire to arrogantly
manipulate it - to light up the sky. Over the next nine years, she had occasions to
think about the deep frustration in Gregory's eyes at the Tesla conference as he
described the professor's attitude of "We'll just have to try it, and find out."
Meanwhile one would-be god of the elements wasn't pulling any punches. A
Texan, Dr. Bernard Eastlund, aimed his sights high -up to the ionosphere, In 1990
Gregory sent Manning a copy of a 1987 patent which cited Nikola Tesla under the
heading "prior art". He suggested she send for the audiotape of a National Public
Radio interview with Eastlund.
Manning was astonished when she read the patent, titled "A Method and
Apparatus for Altering a Region of the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere and
Magnetosphere". Whichever way she looked at it, the proposed high-power beaming
of radio frequency energy into the upper atmosphere sounded insane. For example, the
patent said the technology could manipulate global weather systems. Gregory had
been sending her articles which indicated that electric forces do affect the weather, so
it came as no surprise.
More horrifying, she remembered what a brilliant physicist by the name of
Walter Richmond had written about a possible technology which sounded very much
like Eastlund's concept. The late Walter Richmond and anthropologist Leigh
Richmond wrote a book titled The Lost Millennium, using the novel format to get
their ideas out to the world A disastrous technology described as a "solar tap" in the
book was startlingly similar to aspects of Eastlund's patent.31
31 Walter and Leigh Richmond. The Lost Millennium. Interdimensional Sciences Inc., Lakemont,
Georgia 1967.
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Although ionospheric heaters beam power from antennae on the ground up
to the ionosphere, and the Richmonds' "solar tap"concept goes the other direction,
both involve connecting the earth with the ionosphere. The novel described a solar
tap that just wouldn't quit. It began from a technology that started on the ground, from
which engineers beamed up a pathway for some of the ionospheric electricity to ride
back down on. This planetary short-circuit usually blew out in a fraction of a second,
but one day the fictional engineers made a fatal mistake. They kept a solar tap going
while a solar flare surged into the ionosphere and then to the ground via the ionized
pathway of the tap beam.
"And the surge of power from the tap became an avalanche. An avalanche at
the pole in the vertical plane of the planet's magnetic field where the winds of
magnetism would not rise to blow it out. One trillion watt-seconds of energy
unleashed their fury on the polar cap in the first flash...Even as it discharged, the
ionosphere was recharged from the solar furnace. The first flash became a mighty roar
that poured an increased and now steady stream...of energy through the
now-stabilized short circuit. Kilocubit after square kilocubit of frozen wasteland
boiled. Watt after watt of ever-increasing avalanche energy lit the polar cap with a
glare that had never before been seen..."
Could such a disaster happen in real life? Manning reread the introduction to
The Lost Millennium. It said that in 1962 Walter Richmond was researching
atmospheric electricity and developed the theory of what the couple called the solar
tap - a source of abundant power from the electrical current that exists as a "potential"
between the ground and the ionosphere. "The physics is exact. The power is there for
the tapping".
Such massive amounts of power would be distributed by broadcasting it,
"which Nikola Tesla had proven could be done, before 1911". The two scientists
believed that automobiles, industries and homes could be tuned into broadcast power,
just as radios are tuned to certain frequencies. The bad news was that unless carefully
handled, broadcast power would resonate with the structural steel of buildings in a
destructive way, Richmond said.
Manning's attention was caught by the scientists' own life story. In 1963
the Richmonds' took their research papers on the solar tap to then-President John F.
Kennedy's science advisor. They planned to also take them to the United Nations
Science Advisory Committee. Instead they received a shock from their government.
"Our papers were placed under the Secrecy label (Secrecy Act legislation) and
we were offered a government contract for research, which we refused. It would have
placed us under the Secrecy Syndrome, in which we had refused for some years to take
part, Leigh wrote. We were told to sit down and shut up, in no uncertain terms."
The vision of the fictional solar tap lingered in Manning's mind. The book
described an experiment-gone-wrong that started an unquenchable avalanche of
electrons. A character in the book said "the power's there. Enough to blow up the
Earth if it's misused."
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Is this what the late Walter Richmond knew, that had to be placed under the
Secrecy Act? If the electrical power of the ionosphere avalanched onto Earth in a
continuous flow, his book's character said, it would
"burn hell out of the spot where it touched Earth Empty the capacitor that's
the ionosphere, and feed directly from the solar wind. Earth's an electrical
motor...When the motor began to run wild, it would increase its rotational
speed...Eventually the Earth would explode from increased centrifugal stress."
Manning read the novel's description of the fiery, steamy noisy destruction
of a planet. "A shock wave, racing at the speed of sound...toppling great cities..."
Destruction continued for days, and the planet "whipped about on its axis like a thing
tortured." The Richmonds' novel vividly raised questions about the wisdom of
pulsing
a radio-frequency beam which could make an ionized (and therefore electricallyconducting) channel between earth and the ionosphere.
Even if there were no danger of accidentally tapping into the ionospheric
powerhouse and getting zapped in return, disrupting a part of the upper atmosphere
violently is in itself a dangerous experiment, she later was told by independent
scientists.32 Ionospheric heaters were nothing new, Manning had learned from
articles sent her from Gregory. However, Eastlund's invention made it possible to
stab the ionosphere with a much more powerful and more focused beam.
A few years later Gregory telephoned and said in a choked voice, "The
maniacs are actually going to do it. In Alaska."
The U.S. Navy and Air Force would be paying a contractor, Arco Power
Technologies Inc., to build a super-powerful ionospheric heater - an array of
antennae - in the Alaskan bush outside of Anchorage. Over the next year Gregory
mailed her articles, on ionospheric heaters and related topics, which he found in
science journals dating back to the 1970's. He gave her the phone number for a man
named Clare Zickuhr in Anchorage. Gregory became increasingly angry and
pessimistic about the state of his planet's health, and eventually sent his entire file
on ionospheric heaters to her. "I give up. I've written to everyone I could think of.
You're a journalist; do something with this."
His words and the thought of what he called "mad science in our sky"
weighed on her, but she was again employed as a reporter for a daily newspaper in a
British Columbia city and had no time for starting any campaign. One day she
photocopied excerpts from the file, wrote an introductory page, and gave the packet
to the managing editor at the newspaper. He sent it to the newspaper chain's
columnist in Ottawa, but the man never published a word about ionospheric
experiments.
In early 1994 she telephoned a reporter at the Anchorage paper; Gregory had
said the man was writing an article about the project that would beam so much power
up to the ionosphere for military experiments. In a discouraged tone of voice the
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reporter said that his editor was not interested in art investigative story of any depth
about the project; the stance of the paper was that the military's infusion of money
would provide jobs. Manning photocopied her now-thick file on the topic of
ionospheric heaters and electric weather forces and sent it to the reporter anyway.
Her next call was to Clare Zickuhr. A year later, she would be in Alaska
interviewing him and others who were concerned about the "skybuster", as Dr.
Richard Williams of Princeton had named the proposed super-powerful ionospheric
heater. The sequence of events that took her to Anchorage began when Dennis
Specht, an anti-nuclear activist then living in Alaska, sent a news item to an
Australian magazine.
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"(HAARP) should be carefully studied by large groups of independent scientists..."
Dr. Patrick Flanagan
Chapter Three
WHAT'S GOING ON UP THERE?
Nick Begich can't be categorized by his long ponytail and youthful
appearance; he started his first business in 1974 at the age of 16 and has worked in
mining, construction, real estate and, more recently, a mid-level managerial job in
the Anchorage School District.
Service in Alaskan politics and labor union organizing brought him public
service awards, a couple of appointments to the Alaska Council for Economic
Education and two terms as president of the Alaska Federation of Teachers (AFT).
But it was his longtime interest in science that earned Begich the informal title
of "evolving eclectic".
His life took another turn when he happened to be thumbing through the
April 1994 issue of an Australian magazine that Patrick Flanagan suggested he check
out, when the name of Nick's hometown newspaper caught his eye. "Odd that Nexus
would print an item from the Anchorage Daily News," he commented to his wife
Shelah.
The contents of the news brief startled them - the federal government was
about to introduce some weird technology right in their backyard, figuratively
speaking. Nick copied the reference and headed to the Anchorage municipal library to
search out the original story, a November 20, 1994 letter to Anchorage Daily News
from Eric Nashlund. It told about a military-funded project called HAARP High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program - intended to "perturb" the
ionosphere for Department of Defense experiments.
Nashlund's letter said:
"Some startling revelations came to light while researching the background
of a military-sponsored project starting construction in Gakona...HAARP will be used
to understand, stimulate and control ionospheric processes that might alter the
performance of communications and surveillance systems, according to a HAARP fact
sheet. The HAARP environmental impact statement claims negligible ionospheric
impact, with no impact to climate, weather or ozone layer.
"An ARCO company has the bid for construction of HAARP: ARCO Power
Technologies Inc. APTI holds a patent (# 4,686,605, "Method and Apparatus for
Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere",
inventor: Bernard J. Eastlund; assignee: APTI Inc., Los Angeles) which matches closely
the HAARP proposal dealing with transmitting extremely large amounts of
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radio-frequency energy into the ionosphere. It is evident that HAARP will at least test,
if not fully implement, the patent capabilities.
"Patent #4,686,605 claims it has the following uses: 'cause...total
disruption of communications over a very large portion of the Earth...disrupting not
only land-based communications, but also airborne communications and sea
communications (both surface and subsurface)...missile or aircraft destruction,
deflection or confusion... weather modification...by altering solar absorption...ozone,
nitrogen etc. concentrations could be artificially increased..."
Whether or not APTI was using that particular patent for HAARP, Begich
questioned the wisdom of the whole effort, "If this technology works, is it in
humanity's interest for a secretive bureaucracy to control something which could stop
all electronic communications or change the planet's weather patterns?"
The library had the patent on microfiche. Its abstract (summary) read:
"A method and apparatus for altering at least one selected region which
normally exists above the earth's surface. The region is excited by electron cyclotron
resonance heating to thereby increase its charged particle density. In one embodiment,
circularly-polarized electromagnetic radiation is transmitted upward in a direction
substantially parallel to and along a field line which extends through the region of
plasma to be altered. The radiation is transmitted at a frequency which excites electron
cyclotron resonance to heat and accelerate the charged particles. This increase in
energy can cause ionization of neutral particles which are then absorbed as part of
the region, thereby increasing the charged particle density of the region."
When Begich examined the patent's section titled "prior art", he was surprised to see
references to articles about Nikola Tesla. Eastlund's drawings did appear similar to
patents issued to Nikola Tesla in the late 19th and early 20th century!
Tesla's name had been associated with wild schemes, and Begich wanted to
find out why would-be planetary engineers were still quoting the deceased inventor.
Begich knew that Tesla was credited with startling an earthquake, generating "balls of
electromagnetic energy" and other wonders. Toward the end of his life Tesla had
claimed to hold the keys to creating a shield in the upper atmosphere that would
destroy any incoming aircraft.
A cold chill ran through Begich after he read the articles cited. The first was
the New York Times of December 8, 1915:
"Nikola Tesla, the inventor, has filed patent applications on the essential
parts of a machine, possibilities which test a layman's imagination and promise a
parallel of Thor's shooting thunderbolts from the sky to punish those who had
angered the gods...Suffice it to say that the invention will go through space with a
speed of 300 miles a second, a manless ship without propelling engine or wings sent, by
electricity to any desired point on the globe on its errand of destruction, if destruction
its manipulator wishes to effect. '
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It is not a time, said Dr. Tesla yesterday, 'to go into the details of this thing. It
is founded upon a principle that means great things in peace; it can be used for great
things in war. But I repeat, this is no time to talk of such things.'
'It is perfectly practicable to transmit electrical energy without wires and
produce destructive effects at a distance. 1 have already constructed a wireless
transmitter which makes this possible, and have described it in my technical
publications, among which 1 refer to my patent number 1,119,732 recently granted.
With transmitters of this kind we are enabled to project electrical energy in any amount
to any distance and apply it for innumerable purposes, both in war and peace,
through the universal adoption of this system, ideal conditions for the maintenance of
law and order will be realized, for then the energy necessary to the enforcement of right
and justice will be normally productive, yet potential, and in any moment available, for
attack and defense. The power transmitted need not be necessarily destructive, for, if
distance is made to depend upon it, its withdrawal or supply will bring about the same
results as those now accomplished by force of arms'
Begich noticed the next article referred to in the patent also ran in the New
York Times, on September 22, 1940 and read:
"Nikola Tesla, one of the truly great inventors, who celebrated his eighty—
ourth birthday on July 10, tells the writer that he stands ready to divulge to the United
States government the secret of his 'teleforce', with which, he said, airplane motors
would be melted at a distance of 250 miles, so that an invisible Chinese Wall of Defense
would be built around the country..."
"This 'teleforce', he said, is based upon an entirely new principle of physics
that 'no one has ever dreamed about', different from the principle embodied in his
inventions relating to the transmission of electrical power from a distance, for which
he has received a number of basic patents. This new type of force, Mr. Tesla said, would
operate through a beam one one hundred-millionth of a square centimeter in
diameter, and could be generated from a special plant that would cost no more than
$2,000,000 and would take only about three months to construct."
"The beam, he states, involves four new inventions, two of which already have
been tested. One of these is a method and apparatus for producing rays 'and other
manifestations of energy' in free air, eliminating the necessity for a high vacuum; a
second is a method and process for producing 'very great electrical force'; the third is
a method for amplifying this force and the fourth is a new method for producing 'a
tremendous electrical repelling force'. This would be the projector, or gun, of the
system. The voltage for propelling the beam to its objective, according to the inventor,
will attain a potential of 50,000,000 volts."
"With this enormous voltage, he said, microscopic electrical particles of
matter will be catapulted on their mission of defensive destruction. He has been
working on this invention, he added, for many years and has recently made a number of
improvements in it."
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There was a third reference, apparently written by Tesla, that Begich could
not obtain. Tesla's ideas in these articles raised more questions in Begich's mind
about the version of a "law and order" likely to rise from any military organization
controlling such technology. He believed that if this technology were to be
implemented anywhere, it should be done so openly and honestly, and only when it
can be safe and worthwhile for improving the human condition. The idea of
unleashing such power into the planet's ionosphere disturbed him deeply.
Begich made telephone calls, did more reading and heard the reaction of a
few independent scientists to the military-funded project in the sky. Their request to
the military could be stated bluntly as: "Back off, Charlie; this is our planet too."
There was another aspect that concerned him besides HAARP's possible
effect on weather or on emergency communications in the Alaskan bush. Over the
years he had seen impressive studies saying that even low power levels of pulsed
radio frequency beaming could affect human physiology, minds and moods. He
decided to find out more, much more, from reputable sources. It would be foolish to hit
the alarm button about HAARP without being certain.
One concern was clearly speculative. One of the HAARP documents33 stated
that "Ionospheric disturbances have been detected and ascribed to earthquakes such as
the Alaska earthquake on March 28, 1964," He wondered if the reverse might be true if deliberate ionospheric disturbances could in turn resonate with the materials in the
earth and trigger an earthquake.
The earthquake question was only one of the questions nagging at the
independent researchers. Begich did not know it at the time, but the research would
focus his energies in a way that would attract additional similar minded people.
Eventually their directed energies would "perturb" something bigger than themselves.
Perhaps his life had led up to this.
Nick Begich, Jr. was raised in a political family where "making a difference"
was a way of life. His father, Nick Begich, Sr., served as a state senator and later a
representative in the United States Congress, and his mother Pegge was politically
active in Alaska for more than 30 years.
After the disappearance of the airplane carrying his father and U.S. House
Majority Leader Hale Boggs in 1972 when Nick Jr. was a teenager, his life changed
irrevocably. However, the theme instilled by his parents was one of service and
persistence. He and his five siblings between themselves also chalked up a lifetime of
political experience.
But an equally strong thread in Nick's life was an interest in science. His
early investigations led to an invitation to the 1978 International Biorhythm
Research Association conference in Atlanta, as a youthful science "outsider" among
33 National Telecommunications and Information Administration Preliminary Assessment of Air
Force Ionospheric Research Instrument, Stage 2, Oct. 1,1993.
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fifty senior scientists from around the world. Most were in the life sciences. The
youth presented a simple paper about the idea that his country's researchers
over-specialized and that multidisciplinary teams were the way to breakthroughs in
science. His associations from this early experience led to a lasting interest in
electrophysiology and life sciences. The studies became his creative outlet while he
worked at mundane administrative jobs.
With this background, he could sort through the HAARP technical
documents and see implications of its type of ionospheric interference. As he saw it,
the government had understated the risks. As had fellow Alaskan Clare Zickuhr and
others, he sent "piles of files" out to friends around the world, and information
flooded back.
In the summer of 1994, Begich wrote an article about HAARP for Nexus
magazine, to get the story out. He mentioned the Eastland patent, but acknowledged
that it was controversial,
"The United States military denies that the HAARP project has anything to do
with these patents. However, a careful review of the government documents leading to
the contract with APTI leads one to the conclusion that... the military is deliberately
attempting to mislead."
"While it is true that the device being built will not produce the full effects
described in the patents, it is a necessary step in proving the effectiveness of the
technology, in advance of a larger antenna array..."
"...patent number 4,686,605, issued August 11, 1987...is one of three related
patents by the same inventor, one of which was locked up under a Navy National
Security Order in the late 1980's."
In his Nexus article, Begich said that the Eastlund patents go beyond the
applications dreamed of by Tesla. The Eastlund patent said that scientists in the
previous few years had been trying to learn about the belts of trapped electrons and
ions above the earth, in order to control and use the phenomena for beneficial uses;
"For example, in the late 1950's and early 1960s, both the United States and
the USSR detonated a series of nuclear devices...to generate large numbers of charged
particles at various altitudes..."34
"This can cause confusion of or interference with, or even complete
disruption of, guidance systems employed by even the most sophisticated of airplanes
and missiles. "35
'The ability to employ and transmit over very wide areas of the
earth...electromagnetic waves of varying frequencies...provides a unique ability to
interfere at will with all modes of communication, land sea and/or air, at the same
time."36
34 united States patent number 4,686,605, issued August 11,1987.
35 Ibid.
36 Ibid.
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"...this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power
in the Earth's atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection
level, particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and
better controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art, particularly by the
detonation of nuclear devices., ."37
"...what is used to disrupt another's communications can be employed by one
knowledgeable of this invention as a communication network at the same time. In
addition, once one's own communication network is established, the far-reaching
effects of this invention could be employed to pick up communications signals of others
for intelligence purposes... "38
Eastlund spelled out other possible developments of his super-heater in the
sky: "...missile or aircraft destruction, deflection or confusion could result,
particularly when relativistic particles are employed."
"Also, large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly
high altitude so that missiles encounter unexpected...drag forces with resultant
destruction or deflection..."39
"Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper
atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric
particles which will act as a lens or focusing device. "40
"Also...molecular modification of the atmosphere can take place so that
positive environmental effects can be achieved. Besides actually changing the
molecular composition of an atmospheric region, a particular molecule or molecules
can be chosen for increased presence. For example, ozone, nitrogen etc.
concentrations in the atmosphere could be artificially increased. Similarly,
environmental enhancement could be achieved by causing the breakup of various
chemical entities such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, and the
like..."4l
Begich pointed out to Nexus readers that the HAARP device being built at
that time was not big enough to test ail of Easthmd's ideas. But it certainly looked
like the military was interested in his patents. Begich had experience with
"procurement" - the bureaucratic term for getting government contracts - and had
once worked in the heart of Texas' defense contractor country. The facts of this case
jumped out at him.
On November 3, 1993, the U.S. Air Force announced that the prime
contractor on the first phase of the HAARP project was ARCO Power Technologies
Inc. (APTI). At the time the project was put out for bids, APTI was a subsidiary of
Atlantic Richfield Oil Company (ARCO) and owned the patent rights to Eastlund's
37 united States patent number 4,686,605, issued August 11, 1987.
38 Ibid.
39 Ibid.
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
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ionosphere-altering schemes, Begich looked up APT1 in the Dun & Bradstreet
directory of corporations42 and learned that APTI had a president in Los Angeles and
a staff of 25 employees in Washington DC, with sales of only $5 million a year,
How did a small subsidiary get the military contract for such a large project?
According to the record, it won the right to build the project through exemptions in
the military procurement process. The HAARP contract with APTI was more than five
times larger than APTIs annual sales. As Begich saw it, the only way a
virtually-unknown company in the military contracting arena could get such a
contract is if they had proprietary information needed by the project. The trail circled
back to the Eastlund patents,
Begich quoted the May-June 1994 issue of Microwave News, in which
Eastlund described a "full, global shield" of accelerated electrons created with radio
frequency (RF) transmitters. The HAARP project "obviously looks like a first step
inwards this", Eastlund told the editor. However, he noted that the uses he described
would need a significantly more powerful device with a much larger antenna than the
HAARP array.
While the Eastlund controversy continued, Begich wrote that a February
1990 paper from the Navy and Air FoTce43 made it clear that the project goal is to
learn how to manipulate the ionosphere on a more grand scale than the then Soviet
Union could do with its similar facilities. HAARP would be the largest ionospheric
heater in the world, located in a latitude most conducive to putting Eastlund's
invention into practice. Looking at the northern lights, as the aurora is called in
Alaska, was not the point of HAARP. Begich quoted from the U.S. Air Force "Record
of Decision, High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), Final
Environmental Impact Statement" of October 18, 1993:
"The data obtained from the proposed research would be used to analyze
basic ionospheric properties and to assess the potential for developing ionospheric
enhancement technology for communications and surveillance systems... Apotential
DoD (Dept. of Defense) application of the research is to provide communications to
submerged submarines. These and many other research applications are expected to
greatly enhance present DoD technology."
"The Air Force and Navy proposes to build and operate the most versatile and
capable ionospheric research facility in the world. The government intends to utilize
the unused Over-the-Horizon Backscatter (radar) site near Gakona, Alaska, for this
program... Research requirements stipulated that the selected site must fall in the
range of latitudes between 61 and 65 degrees, either north or south. Siting constraints
included that the site must be: on US soil, on DoD land to the maximum extent
practical..."
The response to the Nexus article showed that more people were interested
in HAARP than the Alaskan researchers had originally expected, Begich noticed that
42 America's Corporate Families 1993 ,1, p. 156.
43 "Joint Services Program Plans and Activities", February 1990.
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many of the independent researchers were afraid to identify themselves and "take on
the government", One group of individuals whom Begich - appreciating their wish to
be anonymous - began to refer to as "the guys in the bush" sent him volumes of files
that they saw as relating to HAARP, Books, papers, news clippings and Internet
items arrived each week, as well as occasional government records. He paid less
attention to the Internet items, unless they mentioned books or articles or patents he
could check out firsthand. One day a box arrived at the Begich family home,
containing about eighteen inches of new files.
About this time, Sir Anton Jayasuriya of the Open International University
of Complementary Medicines invited Begich to present a paper at the World
Congress on Alternative Medicines and to receive a doctorate degree in traditional
medicine. The honor was totally unexpected, and he packed for travel. As it turned
out, circumstances did not allow him to travel to Sri Lanka, so he planned a trip to
Finland instead. In Finland he would at last see his old friend (from the 1978
conference and from correspondence) Dr. Reijo Makela, in order to talk about
promoting Makela's scientific discoveries in electrophysiology.
Meanwhile one of the HAARP researchers in Canada had written to thank
him for the Nexus article. Jeane Manning was a writer who had just completed a
manuscript, The Coming Energy Revolution. She suggested they collaborate on an
article for an American publication. Begich replied by telephoning her in Vancouver.
They learned that each had too much pressing information in their files to compress
into an article. It had to be a book.
On his stopover at the Seattle airport before flying to Finland, Begich met
with Manning for a few hours and found they shared similar values. They decided to
try long-distance book authoring.
While he was in Finland, the only unsettling event was that HAARP-related
files which he had forwarded to Reijo Makela had mysteriously disappeared from
Reijo's office. The two men discussed the project anyway, and concluded that HAARP
was an affront to good sense and a threat to safety. This conclusion was based on
Makela's advanced understanding of the effects of radio waves upon people.
Back in Anchorage, in early 1995 the Begiches sent an airline ticket to
Jeane Manning, and their nine year old son moved into his sisters' bedroom for two
weeks when she arrived. Nick took time off from work and they spread
HAARP-related files for twenty feet across the carpet in his study, while typing on
his computer and a borrowed notebook computer. Shelah joined them for a visit to NO
HAARP activist Clare Zickuhr and his wife, and they also drove hours into the "bush"
country to speak with other activists. The most revealing interviews, however, took
place over the telephone lines. While in Alaska, Jeane phoned Houston, Texas, and
interviewed a man who has apparently been elbowed out of the inner circle of
gigawatt-heater project planners. Was it because he talked too much to the media?
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"Scientists build toys. This is a neat big toy."44
Dr. Bernard Eastlund, talking about HAARP.
"Tests of this kind could cause irreversible damage."45
Dr. Richard Williams, 1988.
Chapter Four
SKYBUSTERS UNDER SECRECY
Dr. Bernard Eastlund chuckles as he tells about the time that the
metaphorical light bulb clicked between his mind and that of Dr. Simon Ramo.
"He's a big guy in military science," Eastlund explained to Manning in a
telephone interview. "He was the founder of TRW and all these big companies.
They're a big defense contractor. At the time he was a board member for ARCO
(Atlantic Richfield Oil Company)."
When Eastlund walked into the meeting room that day in the 1980's to give
a presentation, he was aware of the senior scientist's presence. Eastlund had a
collection of transparencies ready to slap onto the audiovisual table, to illustrate his
new concept for focusing a powerful beam of radio-frequency or microwave energy
onto the ionosphere. He had several reasons to expect approval. For one, whoever
would fire up electrical generators to power his proposed giant transmitter could be a
big paying customer for ARCO's natural gas fields on the North Slope of Alaska,
"I came in with my viewgraphs," Eastlund recalls. "I showed one viewgraph
on the location of the North Slope of Alaska. Where the earth's magnetic field is,
where Russia is, and everything. Then 1 had another slide where I showed taking the
gas, having an antenna and beaming it up."
Eastlund didn't have to show the next slide. The idea clicked and the military
contractor apparently wanted to just think about it foT a minute.
"(Ramo) basically told me to shut up, and sat there and said, 'such a great
idea!' I didn't have to show any of the detail," Eastlund said with obvious pride. "It's
that kind of a concept. In fact, dealing with knowledgeable people, I never made it
beyond the third view graph. Then they all started inventing, themselves."
The senior scientist whom Eastlund impressed is an inventor who has
patents on microwave technology, electron optics and guided missiles. Ramo
co-authored the book Fields and Waves in Modern Radio in 1944, and in general he is
a knowledgeable engineer.
Eastlund has been described as a soft-spoken, highly-reputable physicist,
president of a technological company in Houston. "Eastlund is no wire-haired
44 Dr. Bernard Eastlund Feb, 20, 1995 interview with Jeane Manning.
45 Dr. Richard Williams, "Atmospheric Threat", Physics and Society, Apr. 1988.
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madman," Omni magazine once said46, citing his degrees from Massachusetts
institute of Technology and Columbia University, While working for eight years in
the Atomic Energy Commission's fusion program in the early 1970's, for example,
he co-invented a "fusion torch" that would use plasma leftovers from fusion reactors
in recycling solid waste.
Some time after the meeting where Ramo heard Eastlund's beam focusing
ideas, the two worked together on a patent that they filed in early 1985. Their
"Method and Apparatus for Creating an Artificial Electron Cyclotron Heating Region
of Plasma" was the second of a series of three patents that Eastlund assigned to a
subsidiary of ARCO - Arco Power Technologies Inc. (APTI). Ramo's contribution to
the concept was to use a large superconducting coil on the ground to modify earth's
magnetic field at a high altitude, Eastlund said.
It had been a good time for Eastlund. The controversy over "the Eastlund
patents" had not yet begun. No physicist had yet warned that experimenting with his
patents could turn into "an act of global vandalism".
Eastlund had been hired by ARCO as a consultant, to come up with uses for
the 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in ARCO's reserves on the North Slope of
Alaska. ARCO's problem was the remote location of the gas. Building a pipeline and
shunting the gas to industrial centers was no answer; that pipeline megaproject had
been on the oil industry agenda for more than twenty years without development. The
company would get maximum profit if it found a use for its product right there on the
North Slope itself.
In that scarcely-populated stretch of icebound real estate, who would be the
customers for massive amounts of power? Looking at it in terms of burning the gas
on the spot to power a huge generator and make electricity, Eastlund realized that they
were talking billions of watts of electricity, not just the millions watts put out by a
city's megawatt power plant. What could his boss possibly do with a few gigawatts?
He rejected every idea that needed smaller amounts of power. Eventually
Eastlund came up with a wild plan - use all that energy to power the biggest
"ionospheric heater" in the world. The equipment on the ground would beam focused
energy up to the ionosphere, where the beamed radio frequency (RF) waves would
interact powerfully with charged particles that are always trapped there. The heating
effect of the focused beam would then dramatically push a plume - a large section of
the ionosphere - up and outward from Earth.
As it later turned out, the big ionospheric heater in Alaska would be located
far from the North Slope gas fields. But the challenge had served to spark Eastlund's
inventiveness.
Anyone outside the military-industrial-academic complex, watching
Eastlund research the history of other ionospheric heaters, might wonder - why would
anyone want to heat and lift part of the upper atmosphere? Was the motive to allow
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his country to get a jump ahead of the Soviet Union, which had experimented with
related technology? Only they know for sure, Some of Eastlund's research was
supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)47 under the
project title "Alaska North Slope Electric Missile Shield".
The United States already had smaller antennae in several locations, for
experiments in bouncing radio waves off the ionosphere. With a bigger tool than
anyone else and the ability to focus its beam, the United States military could fry
incoming missiles, disrupt global communications, change the chemical
composition of the upper atmosphere and even engineer weather by redirecting very
high wind patterns (jet streams).
Other tricks which his invention could do would be debated a few years later.
"Earth-penetrating tomography", (scanning the earth with radiations bounced off the
sky - basically, X-raying the ground in a search for tunnels and hidden caches) is a
use which would show up in the National Defense Authorization Act for 1995. And
there are possible uses that are more futuristic than the tomography.
In the 1980's it wasn't an easy sell to the patent office, however. When he
applied for the first of several patents on his ionospheric- heater invention, the
patent examiner told Eastlund that his invention sounded like science fiction.
Eastlund replied that the technology was all known. Step-by-step, he backed up his
claims with paperwork that proved that the technology was possible. Then the
government officials were impressed. But before the document moved out into the
public literature in 1991, the Navy first slapped a Secrecy Order on his U.S. patent
number 5,038,664 for a year. That patent told how to make a "shell of relativistic
particles" high in the sky. "Relativistic" particles travel at near the speed of light.
When Eastlund had the military's attention, the Pentagon opened its
pocketbook and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the initial study of his
claims. Eastlund said in a 1988 radio interview that the defense department had done a
lot of work on his concepts, but he was not at liberty to give details. He later told
Manning that after he had worked within ARCO foT a year and applied for patents,
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) had combed through his
theories then issued a contract for him to study how to generate the relativistic
electrons in the ionosphere.
After 1986 he was off the ARCO payroll, before the invention drew much
lire in the media. Its first major publicity was in 1988, the year after one of his
patents on the system - how to beam huge amounts of electromagnetic energy to
selected regions of the upper atmosphere48 - was made public.
The publicized patent was titled "A Method and Apparatus for Altering a
Region of the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere". Eastlund told
Alex Chadwick of National Public Radio that the patent should have been kept under
government secrecy. He said he had been unhappy that it was issued publicly, but, as
47 DARPA Contract No. DAAHDJ-86-C-0420 "Alaska North Slope Electric Missile Shield.
46 Bill Lawren, "Rediscovering Tesla", Omni magazine, March 1988.
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he understood it, the patent office does not keep basic "fundamental information"
secret. "You don't get a patent if you don't describe in enough detail to another person
how to use it," he said. Specifics of military applications of his patent remain
proprietary (secret), he added.
The radio interviewer, Chadwick, confronted Eastlund about aspects which
troubled the interviewer - mainly the enormity of what the inventor claimed his
invention could do. Effects such as changing the planet's atmosphere sounded like
something out of a Jules Verne novel.
Sounding quite proud of his accomplishments, Eastlund replied that nothing
in the patent was science fiction; it is based on combining known technologies.
"Many of the applications in here are aimed at beneficial effects."
Are artificial sunspot-effects beneficial? Chadwick pointed to page eleven
of the patent, where Eastlund claimed that his invention could disrupt
communications all over the world. With a short laugh, the inventor acknowledged
the claim. "And obviously that doesn't sound too beneficial, so I'm contradicting my
answer to the last statement. But in the patent itself is the fact that you can do that.
Sunspots or solar flares will disrupt communications badly. This would do that
through basically the same mechanism."
Eastlund's enthusiasm for planetary-scale engineering came through just as
clearly in an interview with Omni magazine. While acknowledging that many of the
uses of his invention are warlike, he also talked about "more benign" uses. His view
of benign included using the technology to reroute the high-altitude jet stream,
which is a major player in shaping global weather. Another way to control the
weather with his technology would be to build "plumes of atmospheric particles to act
as a lens or focusing device" for sunlight, he told Omni. With this, the people
controlling the antennae could aim in such a way that the return beams would hit a
certain part of the earth. With the heating ability, they could experiment until they
could control wind patterns in a specific place.
The Omni article explained. "What this means, he says, is that by
controlling local weather patterns one could, say, bring rain to Ethiopia or alter the
summer storm pattern in the Caribbean. His device might even help regenerate the
depleted ozone layer, patch the ozone hole over Antarctica, or break up atmospheric
industrial pollutants like carbon monoxide or nitrous oxide."
Not every scientist shared Eastlund's eagerness to experiment with the
ionosphere. Dr. Richard Williams, a physicist with the David Sarnoff Research
Center in Princeton, New Jersey, sent a letter to a scientific journal warning that
Eastlund's invention might become a serious threat to the earth's atmosphere49.
Williams summed up the contents in Eastlund/APTI's patent for altering the
atmosphere, ionosphere and/or magnetosphere:
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"The idea of the invention is to generate a beam of radio waves of enormous
intensity and direct this toward the upper atmosphere. At certain altitudes, electron
cyclotron resonance heating of existing electrons would cause further ionization of
the neutral particles of the atmosphere. Among the intended uses of the invention are to
'disrupt microwave transmissions of satellites' or to cause 'even total disruption of
communications over a very large portion of the earth'. Other intended uses include
weather modification, lifting large regions of the atmosphere, and intercepting
incoming missiles,"
Williams came up with a pithy one-word description of the concept skybusting. "This 'skybusting' concept may sound like a tall order, but look at the
power levels that will be used (10-to-the-ninth-power up to 10-to-the-eleventhpower watts)! This is equivalent to the output of ten to 300 large power generating
stations."
High-energy experiments pose a danger to the upper atmosphere, Williams
said. He then referred to Eastlund's statement in the radio interview - that a secret
military project was already underway to study and implement the invention.
Williams had a chilling warning.
"Tests of this kind could cause irreversible damage."
Williams reminded his fellow physicists that small changes in the upper
atmosphere, such as mere traces of manmade substances, can have a profound effect.
An example is the destructive effects on the ozone layer, a protective layer of Earth's
atmosphere which absorbs dangerous ultraviolet radiation. While making it clear that
the ozone layer and ionosphere are separate layers, physicists say the layers are
interconnected as well as separate. Regarding the ozone layer, Williams said, "After
long negotiations, the federal government had joined in an international treaty to
protect the ozone layer. A few tests of the Eastlund invention might undo all that we
have accomplished with the treaty."
Effects in the upper atmosphere cannot be kept in one spot, Williams noted.
The publicity was apparently not welcomed by ARCO Power Technologies
Inc. In August of 1992, Jeane Manning had confronted the president of APTI, Ramy
Shanny, Ph.D., after a power-beaming workshop at an International Energy
Conversion Engineering Conference. She had come to the IECEC meeting to further
educate herself about energy alternatives, but one item on the program took her away
from the "advanced and innovative systems" sessions for a morning. The schedule
said that a representative of APTI would be in a workshop on poweT-beaming, and she
wanted to ask the person whether APTI was going to build Eastlund's invention.
Manning slipped in the room without needing to point to the press pass on
her suit jacket. The workshop was a rather intimate gathering of colleagues from
national laboratories, the federal department of energy and universities; the meeting
room held less than thirty people. There was one other woman in the room, also
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looking severely professional as befits a senior research scientist at a national
laboratory.
The discussion bounced from topic to topic, as if the participants were in a
hurry to get the formal meeting over and meet informally. Canada was involved in an
experimental aircraft that flew to 150 miles in 1987 from microwave power beamed
from the ground, Manning learned. ARCO, Raytheon, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and
Japanese scientists made history in microwave-power beaming, These aircraft or
satellite projects can be used for surveillance, the speakers bragged. Or to relay power
for "development of remote natural resources".
One well-dressed man stood up and asked for cooperation among the
champions of laser beaming and the proponents of microwave beaming, "...to find
out what the stuff can do. Let's get a team together and solicit money from the folks
with the pocketbooks."
A project engineer for a large university's Center for Space Power was asked
about environmental effects of microwave power beaming. He replied that the biggest
challenge for the people in the room was the public perception of an environmental
impact. Studies about microwave energy and microwave ovens were done in the
1970's and '80's, he noted, but since then the bulk of the environmental studies have
focused on 60-hz transmission lines. "But I think, with the data that's out there, you
can show that at the power densities we're talking about operating, there certainly
will not be any thermal effects, and the power densities where the people will be
going close to the beam will be such that you're not going to have a problem."
To Manning's surprise, he admitted that "the big question is 'what (when
people are exposed to power-beaming) are the effects from low-density, long-term
duration?' There hasn't been any kind of study on that, and that's going to be such a
detailed involved intensive study that it's not going to be done in the near future.
Because there's no mandate."
Manning swore quietly into her tape recorder. "Then why in the world are
they asking for money to build their toys before such a study is done?" She didn't ask
the question aloud, because she wanted to hear as much as possible from the next
speaker - the president of APTI. Perhaps she could find out if the beaming to
ionosphere experiment had been canceled,
Dr. Shanny was a rather swarthy and large man, dressed in a well-tailored
dark suit, His presentation was brief, with an audiovisual about ARCO's experiment in
beaming microwave power to an aircraft in Canada, and a few comments. Perhaps
being there was more important than giving a detailed report.
Afterward, Manning waited outside the meeting room door on the
sun-dazzled patio, and stopped Shanny as he came out. She introduced herself with
her business card from Explore! magazine, then asked him about the status of the
Bernard Eastlund patented technology.
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Shanny backed away from her, gesturing with his hands and using facial
expressions to convey the impression that Eastland is crazy and the company was not
going to have anything further to do with Eastlund's futuristic patent.
Momentarily assured that APTI would not be building the mega-instrument,
Manning let him rejoin his group and head for a restaurant. Then she replayed the
scene in her mind and realized he had not given her a single complete sentence that
she could quote. The message - disavowing Eastlund's work and reassuring her that
APTI would not build such a technology - had cleverly been conveyed without
Shanny having committing to uttering words.
A couple of years later, the giant defense contractor E-Systems bought
Shanny's company, APTI. The trail from Eastlund's schemes was further buried in
1995, after Raytheon corporation bought the HAARP contract - and thus the APTI
patents - from E-Systems,
Even if the contractors really did completely disown the controversial
Eastlund patent # 4,686,605, APTI was the assignee on a dozen others whose
technologies were related. APTI, and the larger defense contractors who later
swallowed APTI and its patents, probably did leave Bernard Eastlund's controversial
patents in their dust50 as they accelerated their power-beaming technology. Among
the unpublicized patents - also assigned to APTI Inc. -that Nick Begich uncovered
were
• 5,068,669 "Power Beaming System";
• 5,041,834 "Artificial Ionospheric Mirror Composed of a Plasma Layer..";
• 4,999,637 "Creation of Artificial Ionization Clouds Above the Earth";
• 4,817,495 "Defense System for Discriminating Between Objects in Space";
• 4,873,928 "Nuclear-Sized Explosions Without Radiation".
In the interview with Manning, Eastlund explained why his method for
creating a high-energy missile shield was an improvement over the current Strategic
Defense Initiatives type of beaming - no satellites needed. The antennae on the
ground radiate energy into the areas high above the Earth without the use of particle
beaming from satellites to accelerate electrons in the ionosphere. At very high
altitudes, the effects would multiply if a high enough power level was used.
"I took a factor of about a million steps {increase) in power it could deliver at,
say, 100 kilometers altitude. 1 took it way beyond what the slate of the art was at the
time...It opened up new things. As I understand it, that's one of the selling points of
HAARP-by having this massively-greater power, you can do a lot more interesting
things. Basically, what 1 said in the patents."
50 Eastlund/APTI patent #4,686,605 "Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's
Atmosphere, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere"; # 5,038,664 "Method for Producing a Shell of
Relativistic Particles, held up one year by Navy secrecy order; and # 4,712,155 "Method and
Apparatus for Creating an Artificial Electron Cyclotron".
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Is it possible that the HAARP scientists could have miniaturized the
technology so that they don't need such a large area of land and electrical power as
called for in Eastlund's patents? Manning asked him.
"It's entirely possible," he replied. "They have had a lot of good engineers
working on it for some time. I would hope they have improved it."
In 1994 Eastlund wrote to an Australian who was concerned about HAARPs
impact on New Zealand and Australia, David White.51 "As we discussed, this
(HAARP) antenna may be a first step toward determining if some of the applications
discussed in my patents could be accomplished. Most of the military applications
require generation of relativistic electrons in the ionosphere. It is my understanding
that one of the purposes of the HAARP antenna is to study the generation of
relativistic electrons."
The speeded-up electrons would travel along Earth's magnetic field lines and
could either "bounce" on a field line over Australia and return to the north, or "be lost
and fall into the atmosphere". "Don't panic," Eastlund wrote, "this happens very high
in the atmosphere,"
"It is...years in the future that enough electrons might be generated to merit
concern in the Southern hemisphere, and that only if it can be proven that such
electrons can be created with the antenna."
In the meantime, Eastlund said, "since I stopped working for ARCO, I have
spent some time investigating uses of the antenna for possible replenishment of the
ozone holes, and for steering the jet stream for weather modification."
When the ionizing beams make some ozone by a breakdown in the
atmosphere, he later told Manning, they also increase nitrogen compounds up there.
"The problem is, it takes a lot of energy to make a lot of ozone." The scientist
planned to continue to work on the problem.
He would like recognition for his part in inventing the HAARP advanced
ionospheric heater. "They own it, but they can't take credit for it," he said. "I was
upset, because 'internal politics' is why I was let go. I went to my patent lawyer, and
he said 'Ben, don't worry about it. It's a far out idea...If it works, the United States
government says you invented it. And they can't take that away.' "
As evidence that HAARP was based on Eastlund-type technology, he said, "...In the
RFP (Request for Proposal) for the project, for example, they stated that generation of
relativistic electrons was one of the objectives of the program."
Eastlund gave a vivid picture of how energetic those electrons are. "The
electron that hits your TV screen is moving at 25,000 electron- volts. When it gets
more than a half-a-million, that's when you call it relativistic. The ones (HAARP) is
talking about are one to three million electron-volts."
51 March 26, 1994, letter from Bernard Eastlund to David White of Production Technologies Inc.,
quoted with permission from Dr. Eastlund.
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The patent he wrote with Simon Ramo dealt with the how-to. "How you turn
the knobs on your antennae and beam things and make things happen." Since the
Earth's magnetic field is barely strong enough to turn the needle on a compass, Ramo
added the concept of using a very large ground-based superconducting coil to modify
the amount of the earth's magnetic field at a certain altitude, Eastlund told Manning,
"To give you a little more ability to control things...It would allow you to more
effectively do things up at the high altitude."
The reporter asked, "Has anyone raised the thought of things getting out of
control?"
Eastlund didn't seem to notice the anger behind her question, and he gave an
enthusiastic technical answer. "I don't mean control in that sense," he said, "Let's say
you want electrons to get hot. You send your waves through and they get hot,
but only use up one per cent of what you sent...So you have to use a
huge antenna....Control in terms of doing what you want."
The physicist emphasized that he is in favor of HAARP. "If ten per cent of
any of these things work out, it's going to be a very neat thing."
A growing number of people don't agree. Before we meet Clare Zickuhr and
"the guys in the bush", the next chapter will look back at the history of attempts to
do "neat things" in the upper atmosphere.
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"When the Earth came alive it began constructing its own membrane, for the general
purpose of editing the sun...The sky is a miraculous achievement. "52
Lewis Thomas, 1973
Chapter Five
HIGH ON THE SKY
Countless suns in other galaxies spray cosmic rays in all directions
continuously. Closer to home, our own sun radiates gamma rays, X-rays and shorter
wavelengths of ultraviolet light. When they hit the outer layers of earth's
atmosphere, these cosmic rays are absorbed by atoms, but in the process electrons are
knocked off the atoms. Thus there is a constant flux (flow) of electrons at this
altitude, and the atoms are changed to positively charged ions. This process gave the
ionosphere its name. Although ionization happens at heights as high above the earth
as 1,000 kilometers and as low as 50, the positively charged ions and negative
electrons are most dense at altitudes of 80 to 400 kilometers. In non-metric terms,
the ionosphere begins at an altitude of about 30 miles and goes up to about 300 miles
or more.
This natural electrically charged shield around the earth filters harmful
wavelengths of solar radiation, protecting the surface of Earth from significant
bombardment.53
Blown toward Earth on the solar wind, electrically charged particles follow
Earth's magnetic field lines. Along such paths of least resistance, high energy
particles funnel toward the magnetic poles of Earth, squeeze into a poleward current
called the electrojet, and are dumped toward the earth. Sometimes the electrojet
dwindles, but at other times a solar flare floods the system with high energy particles
and the sky lights up into the dancing, shifting curtains of an auroral display. At the
south pole it is called the aurora australis, and the northern lights is the aurora
borealis.
For eons the electrojet has flowed in the form of a direct current into the
polar regions of Earth. Who would want to change the electrojet?
THE PATH TO A GIGA PROJECT
In a way it began with a few puzzled radio listeners. In 1933 a man in
Eindhoven, Holland tried to listen to a radio station in Beromunster, Switzerland.
Suddenly he was hearing two stations. The powerful Radio Luxembourg was not
supposed to tune in at this frequency; it broadcast at a frequency far apart on the dial,
but here it was superimposed on the Swiss station.
52 Lewis Thomas, "The World's Biggest Membrane, The Lives of a Cell", Massachusetts Medical
Society 1973.
53 Robert W. Christopherson, Geosystems. Macmilian NY 1992.
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The Luxembourg Effect, as it was later called, did not remain a mystery long.
The Dutch scientist named Tellegen figured out that the cross modulation of the radio
signals was a wave interaction caused by nonlinear characteristics of the
ionosphere.54 What this means to non-scientists is that reactions of the ionosphere
are unpredictable.
Then other scientists also realized that high power radio waves changed the
temperature and density of electrons in the ionosphere and that other radio signals
passing through the "modified" region were influenced. They experimented with wave
interaction for thirty years and eventually were certain that directing high power
waves into the ionosphere produced instabilities. Their tool was a transmitter –
array of antennae - called an ionospheric heater. (Press releases now refer to it as
an Ionospheric Research Instrument, but this book will call a heater a heater.) For
the most part, ionospheric heaters were operated by universities and research
institutes. Stanford Research Institute (SRI) International developed much of the high
frequency transmitting programs with money from the Defense Nuclear Agency.55
The newest, multi-purpose, tool being built for HAARP, however, is directed from
Phillips Air Force Base.
PENN STATE PIONEERED HEATERS
Anthony Ferraro, Ph.D., is a professor of electrical engineering at Penn
State university, a school that was a pioneer in experimenting with this knowledge.
In 1966, electrical engineers built a 500 kilowatt (kw) ionospheric heater at a site
near the campus, with an effective radiated power of 14 megawatts. Ferraro
developed a technique of beaming power with two transmitters at the same time, as
a way of probing. A high-power transmitter would heat a region of the lower
ionosphere while a weaker transmitter was pulsing. Thus the experimenters could
study the wave interaction.56 Penn State has been paid to do ionospheric modification
research continuously for 30 years.
Although they had a heateT before Alaska or Norway, the university had to
give up operating theirs after the neighbors complained. Firefighters in northeastern
Canada, foT example, had high frequency radios on board their airplanes. Although
Penn State's ionospheric heater was not on the same frequency, it was so strong that
the airplane radios would "kind of blank out", recalls Ferraro. "We developed
cooperative techniques; we would shut down whenever they wanted us to, but it
became so difficult that we just had to give up. Heaters went to remote areas like
Puerto Rico."57
The first large ionospheric heater in the United States was built at
Plattesville, Colorado, in the 1960's. In 1983 the transmitter and antenna array were
moved from Colorado to a site 40 km east of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Perm State
research team was among those who won contracts from the Navy to conduct
experiments using the High Power Auroral Stimulation (HIPAS) facility there.
54 Ray J. Lunnen, Jr. and Anthony J. Ferraro, "High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program",
Pennsylvania State in house publication.
55 National Telecommunications and information Administration memo, "NTIA Preliminary
Assessment of Air Force Ionospheric Research Instrument", Oct, 1, 1993.
56 Interview with John D. Matthews, electrical engineering department, Penn State,
57 Jeane Manning's May, 1995, interview with Tony Ferraro.
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"The initial idea, not connected with my work, was to create an artificial
northern Lights," said Tony Ferraro. "There was not sufficient power to do that."
Why make an artificial aurora borealis? He replied that the plasma
physicists wanted to control the northern lights to learn more about the physics
which created them. Ferraro instead came in and used the facility to modulate the
electrojet. "These currents can be modulated by high power transmitters so that they
could be made to act as little antennas." Ferraro explained that in their natural state
the ionospheric currents are direct current (DC), as is the electricity from a battery.
"By modulating that atmospheric region from these high power transmitters we can
convert (the electrojet current), in a small volume, into alternating currents.
Alternating current flowing in a wire is an antenna. Now, these are not flowing in
wires; they're flowing in space. But it's the same principle. We can create a little
antenna."
The experimenters wanted to generate Very Low Frequency (VLF) and
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves from that antenna in the upper
sky, because VLF and ELF waves can travel almost around the world with very little
loss. They generated the waves, "...but not strong enough to be of practical
interest...That led to the Navy and Air Force funding an even larger ionospheric
modifier - HAARP." HAARP is not only meant for generating the low frequencies that
would occur with a strong electrojet, Ferraro said. "It has a wide, diverse utilization."
The operators sitting at HAARPs instrument control/monitoring console
indeed have a versatile tool at their fingertips. It includes a waveform generator
capable of sending a wide variety of modulated signals to the antenna array. Then the
operators can whip the narrow beam of radio frequency (RF) energy around in the sky
at will. An article from a Penn State publication says "array control permits slewing
the beam to arbitrary locations within the overhead 30 degree cone within ten
microseconds."
Visual displays tell the operators how the experiment is progressing, and
local and remote sensors - incoherent scatter radar, riometers and ionsounders and
other esoteric sounding apparatus - monitor the ionosphere.
The Penn State publication article adds that after the major parts of HAARP
are evaluated in the field, "a comprehensive series of tests will be completed as a
demonstration of the IRI (Ionospheric Research Instrument) capability to the user
community. The goals of HAARP are ambitious, nevertheless, state of the art
capability will allow us to realize this powerful scientific research instrument which
will probe the Alaskan sky."
Long before HAARP was conceived, the former Soviet Union built more
powerful (one gigawatt at Zelenogradskaya near Moscow) heaters than the west, and
involved more scientists in ionosphere changing experiments than the West. More
recently, Max Planck Institute in Germany built a heater at Tromso, Norway. In 1991
the Europeans caught up to the Russians by beaming one gigawatt of effective
radiated power from Tromso.
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The language in some documents hints that an element of mine is bigger
than yours competition goaded the Americans to build a facility that would be three
times more powerful than anything the Russians or the Germans have. Here we must
make it clear that an ionospheric heater isn't judged by height. It may look like a five
or ten acre field of fifty-foot high crosses (technically called crossed dipoles) in a
square arrangement. The larger the area covered by antennae, the more powerful.
Although they are without an ionospheric heater, Penn State still has a
respectably sized department involved in ionospheric modification - "about ten
faculty and maybe 20 grad students". Formerly called the ionospheric research lab, it
has become Communications and Space Sciences.
"It used to be very large, and very interdisciplinary with math, chemistry
and physics people in it. Now it's primarily electrical engineering," Ferraro said.
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John D. Matthews is a physicist who finds himself in the electrical
engineering department at Penn State because of consolidation of departments. His
specialty is the area of the ionosphere down at about the 100 kilometer altitude.
During a phone interview he noted that the main radar (for high frequency ionospheric
heating experiments) at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, can significantly heat the lower
ionosphere as well as the upper. The heating is a Tesult of a high poweT "diagnostic"
instrument. Arecibo is currently getting a major upgrade.
Most of the heating is done at around 200 kilometers altitude - called the
Lower F region of the ionosphere - because it is easier to heat that higher region to
the maximum.
Penn State got in on the ground floor with HAARP. In 1991 several
departments at the university - the Applied Research Laboratory, Computer
Engineering and Engineering Electronic Design Services - combined resources to go
after a desirable contract. They were among the winners. Penn State, APTI and
Raytheon Corporation were each given contracts to study how to design the HAARP
facility. Afterward, APTI invited Penn State to join it, along with SRI International
and Ahtna Inc., an Alaskan corporation, as a team. The Office of Naval Research
chose their team to build and demonstrate the powerful ionospheric heater near
Gakona, Alaska. "The capability will be further expanded to its final world class
performance capability in 1996."58
HAARP: SECRET DUETS AND TRIOS?
Ionospheric heaters are a very specialized area of research. "There are two
groups in the Soviet Union, several people in Europe and maybe ten people in the
states. That's about it," said Sacha Koustov, a Canadian/Russian ionospheric
scientist at the University of Saskatchewan. Like most of the atmospheric scientists
interviewed, he was not familiar with the HAARP literature.
58 Hay J. Lunnen, Jr. and Anthony J. Ferraro, "High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program",
Pennsylvania State in house publication,
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The only way there could be amplification of the electromagnetic waves
once they reach the ionosphere, in his opinion, would be with a special experiment
using two transmitters beaming onto the same spot. The interactions of the radio
waves can cause amplifications, said Koustov. Such highly energetic reactions can
even create so-called gravity waves, he said. That is getting into an area of advanced
science which is beyond the scope of this book.
Co-author of Angels Don't Play This HAARP Dr. Nick Begich discovered
recently that HAARP planners intend to fire up more than one ionospheric heater at a
time and operate them in concert. This test is to be conducted between September 11,
1995 and September 22, 1995 using HIPAS and HAARP at low power settings. What
will happen even at these low levels of power is unknown and unclear.
A HISTORY OF MAD SCIENCE
Begich's home state of Alaska has met ambitious scientists in the past. One
may have had more academic credentials, clout and charm than common sense. Dr.
Edward Teller, known as the "Father of the H-bomb", traveled to Alaska in 1958 with
a proposal to blast a chunk of that state's coastline off the map. As spokesman for the
nuclear establishment, he wanted to prove that nuclear explosions were a tool for
geographical engineering. Teller was widely quoted as telling Alaskans "If your
mountain isn't in the right place, drop us a card."
Teller's colleagues at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory came up with Project
Chariot as part of Project Plowshare. Their plan was to explode six thermonuclear
bombs underground at Cape Thompson, Alaska, to dig a harbor.
Uncritical technophiles almost bought the plan.
The Firecracker Boys, by Dan O'Neill reveals common threads that run
through the history of proposals for questionable megaprojects. For one, the
promoter sold it as an economic development opportunity - jobs for the people. That
pitch convinced legislators, business groups and the media. Another supporter, as
with HAARP, was the University of Alaska administration. Again, the appeal was the
prospect of money and jobs for the state's residents.
O'Neill points out that during the planning stage the scientists ignored the
Inupiat people who lived nearest to the site of the proposed nuclear bomb blasts - 30
miles from Ground Zero. A review of The Firecracker Boys said "O'Neill still marvels
at the determination of the Eskimos who saw through the government's empty
promises and outright lies."59
In the end they didn't blast that hole in the coast. Between the native
peoples' stubborn opposition, and three heroic scientists who stood up and said it
was a bad idea, it didn't happen.
59 Marilee Enge, "Blowing the Lid off a Nuclear Tale", Anchorage Daily News, Dec. 25, 1994.
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As if to set an example of what happens to academics who speak out with
independent views, the three brave scientists who opposed Project Chariot lost their
jobs at the university and were blackballed from academia elsewhere. One had to leave
the country to find work. When O'Neill researched his book, he told a newspaper
reporter later, "there were still a lot of people on campus who were very sensitive
about the topic, who didn't talk about it for years, decades."60
DESTROYING A RADIATION BELT
Milestones in the history of arrogant science also include the three space
explosions of the U.S. military's Project Argus in 1958. Each shot spewed atomic
particles into Earth's magnetic field where they were trapped and spiraled back and
forth at high speeds. "In essence," said the New York Times, "the Argus experiments
produced artificial belts comparable to the natural Van Allen radiation belt (regions of
high- energy charged particles around the earth at between 2,000 and 12,000 miles
altitudes). Thus, after each shot a curtain of radiation - that is, of extremely high
speed particles - spread around the world."61
In the opinion of the authors, psychiatrists should be invited into
thinktanks where decisions are made to "modify" one of Earth's protective layers.
Shortly after Dr. James A. Van Allen discovered the two radiation belts around Earth in the International Geophysical Year (1GY) of 1958, two physicists at the
University of Minnesota proposed that a hydrogen bomb be exploded inside that
radiation belt. According to the New York Times, the two physicists wrote "It might
be amusing to end the IGY by destroying some of the radiation field first discovered
during the IGY."
COPPER-WIRING THE SKY
The folksy saying, "what goes around, comes around", applies to what
experimenters inject into a lower altitude jet stream as well as into the Van Allen belt.
In the early 1960"s someone in the U.S. military apparently decided that the
ionosphere had to be replaced because it was unpredictable (dynamic, lively - it
danced with the ebb and flow of charged particles). They decreed that it had to be
controlled. In their mindset, were telecommunications more important than the
integrity of Earth's natural electric circuit?
The planetary-scale engineers tried to replace a ten by forty kilometer
section of the ionosphere with a "telecommunications shield" of 350,000 copper
needles tossed into orbit.62
The U.S. military did not know what the outcome would be in the early
1960s when they planned an assault on earth's magnetic field with copper needles
(each 2-4 cm long). They planned to increase the size of the needle dump in space "if
the project proves successful". Apparently it was a bust; it was hushed up and kept out
of the mass media,
60 Marilee Enge, "Blowing the Lid off a Nuclear Tale", Anchorage Daily News, Dec. 25,1994.
61 Walter Sullivan, "Blast May Erase Radiation Belt," New York Times Apr. 30,1962.
62 Nigel Harle of Holland, "Vandalizing the Van Allen Belts", winter 1988-89, Earth Island Journal p.
11.
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Another independent researcher, Leigh Richmond Donahue63 tracked
events during the postwar years and through 1977 alongside a physics genius, her
late husband Walter Richmond. She writes, "...when the military sent up a band of
tiny copper wires into the ionosphere to orbit the planet so as to 'reflect radio waves
and make reception clearer' we had the 8.5 Alaska earthquake, and Chile lost a good
deal of its coast. That band of copper wires interfered with the planetary magnetic
field."
Any ecological insensitivity of engineers in the US has been more than
matched by their peers in other countries. Often the scientists in North America just
had bigger allowances to spend and therefore could cause more damage. The former
Soviet Union was reportedly getting ready to change the climate before the 1970's.
That country's director of hydrometeorological work described proposals to make
Russia a more comfortable place to live - at least until the ecological backlash that
could have hit afterward. Proposals included removal of the Arctic ice pack, damming
of the Bering Strait and rerouting Siberian rivers.64
If ordinary common sense people were invited into military thinktanks to
vote on such projects, what would they say to the big boys with the big toys?
63 Private communication with Leigh Richmond Donahue of the Centric Foundation, Maggie Valley,
North Carolina.
64 Lowell Ponte, The Cooling. Prentice-Hall Inc, NJ 1976.
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"The military is going to give the ionosphere a big kick and see what happens."
Clare Zickuhr, formerly of Anchorage, Alaska, founder of NO HAARP.
They're like boys playing with a sharp stick, finding a sleeping bear and poking it
in the butt to see what's going to happen."
Barbara Zickuhr
Chapter Six
NORTHERN EXPOSURE
At an age of about fifty years, Clare Zickuhr took time for assessment, and
was satisfied as he looked around in the early 1990's. He had worked his way through
data management jobs to a position as accountant for a multinational oil company,
ARCO. The good life included hosting friends in a 3,000 square foot house on the
bluff outside Anchorage, with a wall of windows overlooking Cook Inlet. And
watching Beluga whales romp in the inlet, or standing beside his wife Barbara in
companionable silence, contemplating a panoramic sunset over a distant mountain
range. Barbara was content with her own range of interests, from collecting art to
studying medical anthropology.
That the Zickuhrs would become activists in an eclectic group of
environmentalists was too foreign a possibility to consider. A visit from a neighbor
in October of 1993 changed their serene existence, however. Jim, a pilot with Alaska
Airlines, came over one night and mentioned that at a pilots' meeting he had heard
about a government project called HAARP that was going up "in the bush" northeast
of Anchorage. Jim knew Clare was a ham radio operator who spent a couple of nights
a week closeted with his shortwave equipment and that he ran three ham-nets. Jim
bunded him a flyer which said HAARP was an acronym chosen by military agencies to
name their project, which would include a large array of antennae on the ground
beaming a billion watts of electromagnetic power - at radio frequencies - up through
the atmosphere. It would be the biggest zapper in the world! Even if it didn't get
beyond the megawatt (millions of watts) stage, such a transmitter was certain to
interfere with communications in the bush. People in remote areas of Alaska rely on
radios for life or death calls such as for a Medivac aircraft to save a child's life.
Jim wondered what electronic interference from HAARP could do to onboard
systems on the jets which he pilots Clare listened to his worries about aircraft that are
controlled by remote operation instead of having direct cable levering rudders and
other equipment. Such a craft could be more susceptible to a big blast of energy that
might lock it into position or over ride the remote control. Reassurances from the
Federal Aviation Administration reported in the media were not the last word as far as
pilots were concerned.
That night when Zickuhr sat down in front of his shortwave apparatus and
went on the air, he asked other ham radio operators if they had heard about the HAARP
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transmitter. They hadn't heard, but wanted to learn about the biggest "ionospheric
heater" in the world. They learned that similar antennae in other countries had beamed
electromagnetic power into high level experiments for years, but HAARP would be
the most powerful, zapping the upper atmosphere with an unprecedented power level
of energetic particles. Engineering Mother Nature - the planetary environment would become a new ball game.
Some hams lived in areas where HAARP public relations people were
holding public briefings, and these operators reported back on the air. The Pentagon
had been shopping for a site, because HAARP's radio interference would be too strong
to locate near military facilities.
"Then why do they think we want it in our own backyards?" asked some
individuals whose communities were considered as possible sites. When the choice
was made to build it near Gakona, a hamlet about 140 miles north of Prince William
Sound, some of the on the air chatter died down.
While he still had time to sit in front of the two-story fireplace for a
leisurely read, Clare had finished a book titled Miles from Nowhere. It was about
people living in "the lower 48" states, in places where there were fewer than two
people per square mile. The military had of course chosen such areas to do its
hazardous testing such as nuclear blasts.
"Gakona reminds me of that Miles, from Nowhere theme," he told Barbara.
"Few people around to complain."
Although he sympathized with bush dwellers concerned about how close
they were to electromagnetic radiations from HAARP, his main question was more
global. "What all is this thing going to do to the upper atmosphere?"
HAARP's public relations sheet described it as pure scientific research on
the aurora borealis and research on the ionosphere's ability to affect communications.
The U.S. Air Force and Navy were paying for the project, but they said it was not a
weapons system. Later, Clare Zickuhr would learn that the technology definitely
could be used for military purposes. He wondered what else they weren't telling the
taxpayers about HAARP.
His training as an accountant led him to ask about the checks and balances
in the situation. HAARP planners would choreograph experiments on the crucial
envelope of charged particles which circled the planet - the ionosphere, which
protects Earth's inhabitants, like a spherical umbrella, from cosmic radiations. What
independent scientists - not in any way funded by the military - were monitoring this
project? He could find none. Especially missing were biologists and independent
atmospheric physicists, if there are any such independents.
"Basically," he concluded, "the military is going to give the ionosphere a
big kick and see what happens. My biggest worry is what they're going to do by
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punching holes in the ionosphere or heating it. It's going to have reactions that they
don't know how to predict. Look at the past -they set off nuclear explosions in the
atmosphere before they figured out 'hey that's going to cause problems' and changed
the wind patterns for years."
Barbara shared his view, and expressed it with an Alaskan's common sense
observation. "They're like boys playing with a sharp stick, finding a sleeping bear
and poking it in the butt to see what's going to happen."
Clare ordered a copy of the HAARP Environmental Impact Statement (EIS),
from which he took names of others who had questioned HAARP. He used that first
mailing list to contact people who wanted to learn more about it, and he tried to get a
group going in Anchorage.
Near the end of 1993, the Zickuhrs hosted a couple of meetings in their
home. In the first meeting, as the assembled Alaskans expressed their views, Barbara
realized she and Clare had opened their doors to people they probably would not have
met in any social situation.
It was a bit of a shock, From the comfort of an upper middle class home and
removed from subsistence level rural or urban alternative lifestyles, the Zickuhrs'
world had turned fairly smoothly. She joked about being a bleeding heart liberal
herself and Clare being more middle of the road in his views. These guests, however,
ran the gamut of extremes from "let's shoot the government people" to "aliens are
involved in this". Sometimes it felt like she was in a bad mystery novel. Previously
neither of the Zickuhrs had run into fringe political views about, for a mild example,
"black budget projects" which not even legislators know about,
Barbara later reflected that "For me, it was an exercise in social restraint,
which isn't my gift. But I grew to really accept these people for what they were and
worked with them. There were an amazing range of views, but in the end I could see
that was a real plus."
By the next meeting, more people were involved in seriously trying to get
answers about HAARP. One of the people pointed out that "the Environmental Impact
Statement sort of pooh-poohed, or played down, the reactions in the ionosphere."
Someone else at the meeting looked at a possible effect which would be more visible
to Alaskans - game birds. The effect on migrating waterfowl was also played down in
the EIS, someone mentioned, although to the credit of the government scientists they
had admitted "we really don't know what the effect will be",
The first mailing list of around fifteen grew to one hundred and fifty who
were sent updated information - a HAARP fact sheet, decision documents from the Air
Force, and then the most valuable in terms of information, the Request for Proposal
documents. With Zickuhr's accounting experience, he could understand it. HAARP
documents they received at that time generally restricted discussion of military plans
to the category "enhance C3 systems" which seemed to mean keeping track of where
submarines are and what might be happening in a battle.
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"That's ELF waves they're using for that," Clare pointed out. "Extremely
Low Frequency waves, which peopLe in the lower forty-eight (states) fought against
because of health risks, but we're up here 'miles from nowhere' and no one is going to
react to it."
If no one else was going to resist the intrusive technology, he would have
to do what he could. Who else would stand up? He ran into a wall of apathy:
- Local people around the site had been led to view HAARP as a source of a
few gravel hauling or site maintenance jobs.
- A reporter at the Anchorage newspaper contributed to the NO HAARP
"library", by passing on information he had been sent. However, his bosses
apparently did not support his wish to write an in-depth article about the project.
- After Clare Zickuhr dropped off an information packet at the city's
television station, he never got a response.
- A "grassroots" environmental group showed interest but didn't do
anything.
- After the NO HAARP group sent information about waterfowl vs. HAARP
to the headquarters of the Audubon Society, the society did not reply.
The Zickuhrs spent about $3,000 on telephone bills and mailings while
opposing HAARP. Meanwhile, one of the "guys in the bush" encouraged other
activists to write a couple of thousand words about HAARP, and Clare gave it a try. He
wrote an article titled "Monster in the Wilderness" and sent it to Gar Smith in San
Francisco, editor of Earth Island Journal. A technical consultant told the journal that
the technology would be impossible. That stalled the printing of the article, until
another tireless networker, Remy Chevalier of Connecticut, urged Gar to reconsider.
Clare sent more information and in the end the published co-authored article was
included in the "Most Under-reported News of 1994" list, for the book Project
Since he worked for ARCO, and its subsidiary APTI had the contract to build
HAARP, Clare filed an internal conflict of interest statement in early 1994 so that his
employers would know that he was working against a project that another arm of the
company was working on.
Early in his involvement, Clare became frustrated by being unable to get
what he felt were straight answers from the government about HAARP. Barbara
eventually grew discouraged too. "I feel we're just like a mosquito buzzing around,
treated like we're not worth paying attention to."
As it turned out, the Zickuhrs' sacrifices did play a major role - keeping the
65 Project Censored, Four Walls Eight Windows, NY 1995.
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resistance alive until the NO HAARP momentum grew stronger in 1995 when the
media had noted its "Project Censored" status. When Clare retired from bis job with
ARCO during company cutbacks and he and Barbara sold their house to go traveling
through the "lower 48", the guys in the bush carried on. It was March, 1995.
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"Project HAARP is driven by fear psychology - preparation for nuclear Armageddon.
That path won't lead to the next century."
David Yarrow66
Chapter Seven
IN THE WILDERNESS
The log home sits in a clearing in one of the small timber stands which
carpet much of Alaska - the largely silent tracts of spruce called "the bush". The small
house is within hailing distance of a two lane paved road. On the February day that
Nick Begich and Jeane Manning visited, the remains of a moose carcass dominated
the driveway.
Stepping around a snowmobile parked beside the house, the burly owner
offered a warm handshake. Wally wore a National Rifle Association baseball cap,
plaid flannel shirt over sweatpants, unzipped snow boots and a brief smile of
welcome.
Up to this moment the two writers knew of him only as a man of diverse
skills - from trucking to wildlife management - who spent up to $500 a month on
phone bills to oppose HAARP.
Inside the family home, parkas and boots were shed in the kitchen, then the
trio moved into a larger room. The wooden table that they settled around held a Mac
computer with modem and printer. At the far end of the room, a large TV screen
dominated a seating area that faced a wood burning furnace. Peeled pine logs
supported the ceiling.
As he turned off the television, Wally commented on how life in the bush
had changed in only twenty years. A satellite receiving dish in his backyard collected
a world of communication channel signals out of the sky. He often tuned in news from
an English speaking station out of Moscow, and regularly listened to radio broadcasts
from Australia and New Zealand. Cabin bound months in the winter give bush dwellers
time for short wave radio as well as reading, he noted. With all this and the Internet
too, they could become better informed than some city dwellers. However, he did not
find all the news reassuring.
He paced nervously on wool-stockinged feet and then suggested his guests
climb into his four wheel drive truck for a drive to the HAARP site near Gakona. On
the way they could ask him questions.
Wally recalled how he had stumbled into the HAARP controversy. Through
forestry fire-fighting courses he had previously known one of the other protesters
from the bush country, whom he referred to as Ed. Wally recognized the man's name
under letters to the local newspaper, the Copper River Journal and to the Anchorage
Daily
News.
66 David Yarrow, authnor of Raturn of the Dragon: Hazards of Made-Made Magnetism. Albany.NY.
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Of most concern to these local activists were HAARP documents that
clearly stated the project was intended to find out how the ionosphere could be
exploited for military purposes. It was not pure auroral research. They were also
suspicious of the HAARP environmental impact statement that said there would be no
impact on climate, the ozone layer or weather.
As Wally talked about his reluctance to get involved in the NO HAARP
campaign. Jeane Manning remembered a 1994 letter from a Northern homesteader
who ran a mail order business she carried the letter in her pocket with the intention of
phoning the writer while in the North. "...Most Alaskans are antienvironmentalist,"
Howard wrote. "It has something to do with the frontier mentality and the fact that
almost all of our money comes from the oil industry and other mineral extraction." He
then zeroed in on HAARP. "The E1S and various Department of the Air Force press
releases have disingenuously pictured the project as a swell international research
project where - in a really sappy detail - even local high school students would be
free to use the facility to conduct science project research on the aurora borealis! Of
course, the project is pure Star Wars, aimed at enhancing the ability to disrupt enemy
communications by disturbing the ionosphere."
Two main groups opposed HAARP, he said - trappers, miners and others in
the bush who rely on ham radio communications because they have no telephone
service, and pilots. "I'm sure the military planners, as do most Americans, considered
Alaska to be empty enough that a trapper here or there or an unlucky bird would be of
minor consequence, and were perhaps surprised by the volume of local opposition."67
Wally and Nick were chatting as the vehicle bucked along into a white
landscape with occasional glimpses of black asphalt ahead. The discussion
returned to HAARP. Because his background included computers and government
contracts, Wally had looked into getting work with APTI, which held the contract
to build HAARP at that time. The effort to get the jobs went nowhere, but Wally had
a look at the HAARP contract.
"I saw the site had to be 'open for inspection according to Intermediate
Nuclear Defense Force Treaty or something. Saw a number of things in provisions of
the contract... The way information was handled didn't add up. Everything had to go
through (John) Heckscher (HAARP project manager) in Massachusetts; people here
locally didn't know anything."
"The further we dug, after we had a look at the contract, we knew it was a
secret project; there was hokey pokey going on that the government didn't want to
disclose. There were provisions in the contract that tripped my bells. 'Contractors
can't disclose if there's something injurious'...clauses like that."
Wally said he had then telephoned two men who publicly opposed HAARP.
Clare Zickuhr, who was at the time still an accountant with ARCO in Anchorage, told
67 The "guys in the bush" have been given pseudonyms in this book, at the suggestion of three of
them who are concerned about keeping low profiles in their communities.
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Wally that for environmental reasons Clare wanted to see the site shut down. Ed
agreed and added that as a ham operator he had concerns about whether the high power
RF beaming would interfere with life-and-death situations in the bush.
"Ed prodded me into doing computer searches on the Internet - go into the
Library of Congress and different databases. As soon as I started looking stuff up, that
was all she wrote. Eventually some of us formed a network."
Some of the people were concerned about possible military applications of
a technology that could knock out the Internet or blackout the power grid. More close
at hand, they figured, what goes up must come down, especially if the radiations
bounce off the ionosphere. Wally worried when he heard talk of the HAARP
technicians planning to install filters on the radio and satellite receiving dishes in
and around every home in the vicinity. The filters would screen out incoming radio
wave interference, he was told. He got together with an electronics whiz who lived on
an even more remote homestead, to study the proposal for high power beaming.
Concerned about their families' health, they came to a conclusion. "It's not
innocuous."
Nor was the proposed violation of Earth's atmospheric electrical system, he
said. "You read about a tremendous heated plume rising, and raising part of the upper
atmosphere with it, and that it could change weather conditions and that the actual
effects can be intensified. Then (HAARP spokesmen) come back and say 'don't
worry'."
He did worry - about his family on the ground receiving reflected radiation,
and then about swans, ducks, geese and other frequent flyers that could be fried in the
intense radio frequency beam above the project site. The ionospheric heater, as the
HAARP antennae were called, would beam upward in a prime corridor for migrating
waterfowl.
Another of the guys in the bush worried that migrating salmon might lose
their way, as they use the geomagnetic field as part of their road map for returning to
spawning grounds. The magnetically- sensitive material magnetite had been found in
salmon, as it had in human brains. Therefore changes in the magnetic field would be
confusing, he said. A powerful ionospheric heater such as HAARP could create an
artificial electromagnetic storm high above the earth.
"All we have is John Heckscher's comments that there'll be no more
magnetic disturbances than what occurs naturally," Wally said skeptically.
The bush dwellers and their science advisors, on the other hand, contended
that even naturally occurring disturbances, caused by solar storms, do disrupt living
systems. A psychologist at the University of Alaska did a study trying to connect
Alaska's high rate of suicides to disturbances from geomagnetic storms generated by
the aurora borealis.68 And scientific articles about the sensitivities of living cells
and nervous systems said it doesn't take strong magnetic fields to make a difference;
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fluctuations of very weak fields can dramatically affect the cellular level of life.
Leaning against the passenger side window of the truck, Nick nodded agreement with
the NO HAARP researcher. His yeaTS of research had uncovered studies that proved
this point.
As his pickup truck swayed in the strong gusts of snow driving wind, Wally
recalled the early days of their battle. "We tried to find ways to bring it to the public's
attention. But the newspapers just blocked the thing out; they didn't want to deal
with it. We thought we had a good contact with (a large Alaskan newspaper), but
the reporter told me the story was being quashed."
The loose network of activists tried to keep up their momentum despite the
lack of publicity. "We had our meetings by conference call. Seemed like every
time we turned around we were bringing up new information...Joe knew a lot about
this directed weapon stuff. Ed on the other hand knew the technical end very
well. He performed all the calculations on his computer and his calculations didn't
jive with the reports put out by Mitre Corporation."
Wally glanced over to see if his listeners were paying attention to this part
of the story. "Mitre Corporation does all the work for NSA (National Security
Agency). They're NSA, owned, operated, signed sealed and delivered. Mitre
corporation is the main defense communications contractor for the United States
government. Another bell goes off. What are we talking about here? Satellite
communications, ASAT (satellite) weapon or what?"
Members of the rural NO HAARP group researched different aspects of the
puzzle, each taking a different slant. They never sat down together in the same room,
but collaborated long distance. Wally met Clare Zickuhr once in Anchorage, and
received copies of documents that Clare had dug out of the library. When Wally
returned home to his computer, he filed "a whopping big request" for more
information on HAARP.
"I thought it was going to Heckscher, but it was forwarded to Kirtland Air
Force Base. When that happened, 1 remembered that Kirtland hosts the Air Force
space command and it also stores atomic weapons. And they do the black (hidden
budget) stuff for Los Alamos. It shocked the hell out of me that my request came back
from Kirtland Air Force base. Then 1 knew this project probably has a lot of classified
stuff."
Wally's brow creased in an anxious frown. "You're gut checking yourself all
along the way - 'am 1 damaging national security?' Ed and I a lot of times would kick
this back and forth on the phone, always second guessing what we're doing."
Despite their desire to be patriotic, he said, it always came back to a gut
feeling that they were correct in opposing HAARP. So they spared no expense. Wally
estimated the few individuals spent between five and ten thousand dollars on
photocopying and mailings of information packets.
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"The last package we did, with Clare, went to a writer in New York who was
from a national environmental news service. Said he could do a good job. I drove all
the way into town and sent this stuff out to him FedEx. Yeah, its' a seven or eight
hour round trip. How do you determine the cost of our time?"
As he casually steered through waves of snow drifting across the road, Wally
recalled the meeting which he and Ed had in the city of Fairbanks with Paul Brodeur,
the author of books such as The Zapping of America. "He told us about a situation
where a community put up a stand against a proposed project, but (their protest) never
panned out. The people even got injunctions, but the Air Force never gave in. It was
about a similar type of system, where it could be increased incrementally...He told us
about the hazards involved in HAARP."
Wally abruptly steered off the road and onto a plowed driveway. The locked
gate of a fence stopped the truck, and signs hung on the wire mesh warned that the
three were looking at a "Controlled area. It is unlawful to enter this area
without permission of the Installation Commander. Sec. 21 Internal
Security Act of 1950 USC 797. While on this Installation all
personnel and the property under their control are subject to
search." A black "No Trespassing" sign hung beside one of the warnings.
The trio jumped out of the truck to survey the site from which antennae
would zap the upper reaches of the sky with more power than the human race had
previously been able to throw. Beyond a line of spruce, a box like building,
appearing to be about the size of an industrial warehouse or grain elevator, loomed
between them and the gravel pad base for the antennae. Manning remembered that
Clare Zickuhr once came up with a melodramatic name for this innocuous appearing
installation - the Monster in the Wilderness. She also recalled that a scientist from
Princeton, New Jersey, Dr. Richard Williams of the David Samoff research
laboratory, coined a simpler name for HAARP type ionospheric heaters - skybusters.
He said high energy experiments pose a danger to the upper atmosphere and could
cause irreversible damage in a short time. Effects could spread around the globe.
"What we do know," the physicist had added, "is that secrecy always lowers the
standards of environmental accountability."
In the cautious manner of a scientist, Williams had taken his concerns to me
journal Physics and Society instead of to the mass media. An equally polite reply
printed in the next issue came from Caroline Herzenberg of Argonne National
Laboratory who wrote as a private individual, in 1988 and again in April of 1994. She
warned that the advanced type of ionospheric heater could be used as a weapons
system, and its use might violate the Environmental Modification Convention
ratified by the United States in 1979. The atmosphere, ionosphere and near-Earth
space are included in the convention. Herzenberg called on the physics community to
closely critique the HAARP technology. The analysis hasn't been done.
Manning shot a photograph of Nick shivering in the February wind, but
Wally did not want to be photographed. They joked half-heartedly about climbing
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over the fence and getting arrested. Clambering back into the cab of the pickup felt
like a better idea.
On the drive back, Wally said he doubted if there would be the vaunted
economic benefits to locals, from money spent by contractors who come in to
complete the site. "It's a short term deal - one summer, two summers and the
construction jobs are out of here, We were sold a bill of goods; they said there would
be u lot of spinoffs. Visiting scientists. But in the contract it states that this facility
is built to be remotely operated. 'Remotely operated'? The only person that's going to
make out here is the fuel oil dealer, from the millions of gallons of fuel that'll be
burnt there. They sold us a lot of bullshit."
There were long silences on the ride back, as if all three were reflecting on
how down to earth concerns of life in the Alaskan bush contrasted with the
multi-gigawatt beam which will rise from that desolate site. The high energy beam
could have global consequences, according to a few independent scientists.
As if sensing that his companions in the wind buffeted truck needed a hearty
laugh, Nick told about a telephone call from a reporter for a major newspaper who had
heard that Nick was researching HAARP. "(The reporter) said he had talked to the
people at E-Systems (the defense-contracting corporation that bought APTI), and
they had heard there were rumors in Alaska about black helicopters and aliens
and
black cars harassing people...guys being beat up by men in black! I said 'You know,
it's funny you would hear those rumors in Washington, D.C., when I've never heard
any of that in Alaska. And I live here.
'I laughed at him; I wasn't going to feed into that."
Nick shrugged off the memory of the reporter's attempts to elicit rural
paranoia to quote. "He was playing games, when I look back on it."
When the reporter's article was printed, the Alaskan researchers were
outraged to see what the leading sentences said;
"The rumors are buzzing across the Internet that a Pentagon physics
experiment on a wind whipped tract of U.S. Air Force land in Alaska has a secret
purpose - digging up bodies of UFO Aliens. Another rumor has it that men in black
suits...are jumping out of a black sedan to beat up Alaskan opponents of the project.
Countering these odd speculations is all in a day's work for Ramy Shanny,.."69
Playing games. The phrase stuck in Manning's mind. Is that what defense
contractors and the military public relations men are doing? The PR man tells a
reporter that nah, we aren't going to do any ambitious tests on the upper atmosphere,
Just some megawatt stuff. If the reporter digs a bit farther, however, he or she would
find a paper from Penn State, for example, It shows a graph of the hierarchy of
thresholds that increasing input of radio frequency (RF) power makes in the
ionosphere. Heating comes first, then "parametric instabilities and stimulated
electromagnetic radiation". Pump in more RF power and you accelerate electrons until
69 John Mintz, "Pentagon Fights Secret Scenario Speculation Over Alaska Antennas", Washington
Post, Apr, 17, 1995, A3.
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the air glows. The next threshold is "shock fronts and stimulated ionization". The
Penn State experimenters proudly say they don't know what will happen when the
new super powerful HAARP instrument drives the effects past a new threshold.
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When the trio returned to Wally's home, his wife sat on the sofa with the
weary look of a school teacher resting after a day in the classroom. Three teenagers
came in and joined her in front of a TV newscast.
While Nick telephoned the local newspaper editor to ask for a photo of the
HAARP site, Jeane asked Wally if the project was still controversial among local
residents. He replied that many of his neighbors scattered through the Copper River
Valley had attended public meetings earlier. "They came forward one after another
saying they were concerned. Then later (the HAARP organizers) came out and said
they'd addressed all of the concerns, and started building the project. People still feel
powerless."
They half listened to Nick's conversation. Apparently the local editor was
quite impressed with what charming gentlemen the HAARP manager and his
associates were.
Wally rummaged through books on the table and found one, written in 1993
by science journalist Bill Sweetman70, which one of the guys in the bush had passed
on to him. Wally pointed to a section about a strange how to lie manual, and read
aloud:
"The U.S. Air Force's credibility is further undermined by the fact that the
Department of Defense explicitly authorizes the dissemination of misleading
information in order to protect classified programs. In a supplement to the National
Industrial Security Program manual, released in draft form in March, 1992, the DoD
told contractors how to draft cover stories that 'must be believable and cannot reveal
any information regarding the true nature of the contract'."
Wally pointed out that the next paragraph contained a comment by Steven
Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists. "Once we know that the DoD
practices this type of deception, it becomes harder to discern what's for real and what
is not."7l
Snapping the book shut, Wally said he was already suspicious of certain
individuals who leave messages on Internet files as if planting them for the gullible,
and he distrusted Department of Defense public relations releases. Aftergood's
comments only confirmed his gut feelings. What can a guy trust?
Outside the window, the wind hammered at the log walls. The farewells were
brief.
70 Bill Sweetman. Aurora: The Pentagon's Secret Hypersonic Skyplane. Motor Books Internationa!,
Wl 1993.
71 Ibid.
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"I think HAARP could be a disaster."
Phillip S. Callahan, Ph.D.
PART TWO
SCIENTISTS ARE CONCERNED
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"Some of these (electromagnetic) emissions may be reaping irreparable damage to the
ionosphere and earth, which threatens our very existence."
Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher, Particle Physicist
Chapter Eight
WHO CAN STOP THE BIG ZAPPER?
Independent scientists seek 'return to sanity'
William van Bise of Nevada is a scientist who is passionate about the safety
of his children and grandchildren, and he can't understand why some high level
military planners seemingly are not. According to documents about the HAARP, the
military's disrespect for dynamic natural systems hasn't changed much in the decades
since nuclear bombs were the favored research tool for studying Earth's geomagnetic
field.
Van Bise, an electronics and biomedical engineer, says bluntly "They're
suicidal!" He made the comment after reading about HAARP, the military's plan to
pump unprecedented levels of radio frequency power up through the upper atmosphere
to heat parts of the unpredictable ionosphere. His concern is that the experimenters
admit they do not know what the outcome might be.72
Surprisingly few scientists know about ionospheric heaters. "Why in the
world would anyone want to heat up the ionosphere? It's already hot enough," said
one head of a large university's physics department. Co-author Manning gave him
the benefit of the doubt, but as it turned out, he was not joking. Other department
heads at universities with sizable atmospheric physics departments had heard about
ionospheric heaters but said their knowledge of the research was vague.
The University of Alaska's geophysical department knows what an
ionospheric research instrument is, because their university is directly involved in
HAARP funding. But although "auroral research" involvement of the University of
Alaska is played up in press releases, HAARP's internal documents say the goal of the
experiments is to control ionospheric processes so that they can be exploited by the
Department of Defense.
Concerned scientists such as van Bise are doubly discouraged, because the
people who want to control the electrojet or make "nuclear-sized explosions"73 or
an "artificial cyclotron"74 in the upper atmosphere are the most difficult to stop.
Traditionally they have held the biggest handfuls of taxpayers' money. Their power
base includes mega-corporation defense contractors and their lobbyists. Few
physicists are willing to risk their livelihood (government contracts) by
contradicting these people.
72 Telephone conversations Between William van Bise and co-author of Angels Don't Play This
HAARP Jeane Manning, May 1995.
73 U.S. Patent No. 4,873,928 "Nuclear-sized Explosions without Radiation".
74 U.S. Patent No. 4,712,155, "Method and Apparatus for Creating an Artificial Electron Cyclotron",
among patents assigned to APTI.
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WHISTLE-BLOWERS
Elizabeth Rauscher has a Ph.D., a long and impressive career in high energy
physics, and has been published in prestigious science journals and books.75 Yet her
warnings apparently go unheeded. For example, in 1984 she presented
scientific findings at a Pentagon briefing and then tried to address the colonels and
generals person to person about global environmental issues. They refused to
respond to her blunt question, "Don't you worry about your children and grandkids?"
Seven years ago Rauscher and her partner William van Bise wrote a paper76 that
discussed the earth's magnetic field emanations in technical language, but ended
with a strongly worded warning.
Earth and life forms on it vibrate and resonate in harmony, they noted;
radiant energy from the sun and materials and vibrations of the earth support life. "Is
there a symbiosis between the earth and the life forms upon it?" After mentioning
chemical and radioactive pollution of our life support systems, they injected a
less-publicized concern, "some of the electromagnetic waves generated by man may
have global significance..."
DAMAGE TO IONOSPHERE
The paper had discussed natural sources of electromagnetic waves such as
Earth's mechanical rotation, earthquake and volcanic activities, solar wind and solar
"broadband noise activity". Manmade sources, the two experts said, are disturbing
the
harmony. "Some of these emissions may be reaping irreparable damage to the
ionosphere and earth which, in turn, threatens our very existence."
Societies and nations must examine what we are doing and develop a new
awareness, the two scientists warned, or destruction of life will inevitably result. As
if predicting the goals of HAARP, they noted that most recent technologies have
been aimed at shielding people from nature - "to 'conquer' and control her, while
designing ever more dangerous weapons systems with which to more efficiently strip
all life from the planet."
Rauscher and van Bise ended the paper with a suggestion that society
examine why we have moved toward such insane motivation, and then go forward to
again pursue mutual life enhancement and sanity.
75 Relevant publications include, "Application of Soliton Physics to Plasma-MHD and
Superconductivity -BCS: Theoretical Implications for Primary Energy" report prepared for Primary
Energy Technology LA; "Ambient Electromagnetic Fields as Possible Seismic and Volcanic
Precursors', by W.L., Van Bise and E.A. Rauscher, in Electromagnetic Phenomena Related to
Earthquake Prediction edited by M. Hayakawa and Y Fujinawa, Terra Scientific Publishing Co.
Tokyo; "ELF Signatures Arising from Space Vehicle Disturbances of the Ionosphere" by E.A.
Rauscher and W.L. Van Bise, unpublished paper from Electromagnetic Signal Laboratory, Golden
76 "Fundamental Excitatory Modes of the Earth and Earth-Ionosphere Resonant Cavity" by Dr.
Elizabeth A. Rauscher and William L. Van Bise of Technic Research Laboratories, Reno, Nevada,
article published in The Proceedings of the 1988 International Tesla Symposium.
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BUBBLE OF ELECTRIC PARTICLES
In May of 1995 Dr. Rauscher was asked to comment specifically on HAARP.
"You're pumping tremendous energy into an extremely delicate molecular
configuration that comprises these multi-layers we call the ionosphere," she replied.
The ionosphere is prone to catalytic reactions. In other words, she explained, if a
small part is changed, a major change in the ionosphere can happen.77
In describing the ionosphere as a delicately balanced system, Dr. Rauscher
shared her mental picture of it - a soap bubble like sphere surrounding Earth's
atmosphere, with movements swirling over the surface of the bubble.
"If you've ever watched a large bubble closely, you see these rainbow-like
patterns flowing over it. Then you see a black spot where the wavelengths of light are
so short that they can't show the bubble. But it hasn't burst yet. Then a hole forms,
and then it pops."
Project planners who experiment with the ionosphere do not agree with her
model of what could happen, Rauscher said. "But I strongly believe the ionosphere
works that way."
When human activities make massive holes in the real ionosphere, the
holes at the north and south poles migrate just like the shapes on the bubble. This is
how a dramatic loss of the ozone layer happens to appear over Australia, for example.
There have even been sun watches (ozone-hole watches) over high altitude states
such as Nevada, where Rauscher and Van Bise live.
"(Decision makers) know the cause - the SST (supersonic transport) and the
space shuttle and its Russian equivalent. I have the Russian report that calculates how
many space shuttles it will take to destroy the ionosphere."
In a corresponding situation at a lower altitude, while anyone who ever
used a spray propellant is made to feel guilty about holes in the ozone layer,
scientists continue to send up rockets and launch satellites to study the ozone layer!
Each bum of rocket fuel destroys another part of a percent of the ozone layer.
BRAGGING ABOUT PUNCTURES
Returning to the higher altitudes, we see that science journals in the early
1980's reported openly on the ionospheric disruption caused by scientists
themselves. But how many outside of their specialty read papers on topics such as the
High-Energy Astrophysical Observatories (HEAO) Hole in the lonosphere78. The
launch of one of NASA's High-Energy Astrophysical Observatories, on Sept. 20,
1979, for example, by an Atlas-Centaur rocket "produced an extraordinary
opportunity to monitor a large scale, artificially induced depletion of the earth'
77 Jeane Manning's May 1995 interviews with Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher and William van Btse.
78 Michael Mendilio, Donald Rote and Paul Bernhardt, "Preliminary Report on the HEAO Hole in the
Ionosphere" The American Geophysical Union, 1980.
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ionosphere" the scientists exulted. They were being paid to study the impact of
repeated rocket exhaust activity in the ionosphere. Data showed the "HEAO hole
followed the rocket's ground track, extending at least 2,000 km - and probably 3,000
km - to the east of Cape Canaveral. It's north-south extent spanned 600 to 1,000
km, and thus the overall disturbed region totaled 1 to 3 million km in effective surface
area." For about three hours the depleted area centered on the rocket's path, then
moved northward. Within hours, evidence of the hole disappeared from the "affected
region".
SLICING THE IONOSPHERE
David Yarrow of Albany, New York, is a researcher with a background in
electronics, and has spent countless hours exchanging ideas with physicist Dr.
Daniel Winter, now of Waynesville, North Carolina. Yarrow puts Winter's insights
into simpler terms - "Dan Winter...explained HAARP high frequency emissions can
couple (heterodyne, in technical terms) with longwave (low frequency, or ELF) pulses
the Earth grid uses to distribute information as vibrations to synchronize dances of
life in the biosphere. Dan terms this geomagnetic action 'Earth's information
bloodstream'. Likely, coupling of HAARP HF (high-frequency) with natural ELF
(extremely low frequency) can cause a dimension of unplanned, unsuspected side
effects."
In his own words, David Yarrow described possible interactions of HAARP
radiations with the ionosphere and Earth's magnetic grid:
"HAARP will not burn 'holes' in the ionosphere. That is a dangerous
understatement of what HAARP's giant gigawatt beam will do. Earth is spinning
relative to thin electric shells of the multilayer membrane of 'ionospheres' that absorb
and shield Earth's surface from intense solar radiation, including charged particle
storms in solar winds erupting from the sun. Earth's axial spin means that HAARP - in a
burst lasting more than a few minutes - will slice through the ionosphere like a
microwave knife. This produces not a 'hole', but a long tear - an incision." 79
"An acute concern here is Earth's thin shell of ionized molecular oxygen - the
ozone layer..." 80
CRUDELY PLUCKING THE STRINGS
"Second concept: As Earth rotates, HAARP will slice across geomagnetic
flux...a donut-shaped spool of magnetic strings - like longitude meridians (on maps).
HAARP may not 'cut' these strings in Gala's magnetic mantle, but will pulse each thread
with harsh, out-of-harmony high frequencies. These noisy impulses will vibrate
geomagnetic flux lines, sending vibrations all through the geomagnetic web, even as a
single thunderstorm's lightning flashes emit pulses felt globally by sensitive
sensors. "81
79 Letter from David Yarrow to Gar Smith, Earth Island Journal, August 18, 1995,
80 ibid.
81 Ibid.
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"The image comes to mind of a spider on its web. An insect lands, and the web's
vibrations alert the spider to possible prey. HAARP will be a man-made microwave
finger poking at the web, sending out confusing signals, if not tearing holes in the
threads. "82
"Effects of this interference with symphonies of Gala's geomagnetic harp are
unknown, and I suspect barely thought of. Even if thought of, the intent (of HAARP) is to
learn to exploit any effects, not to play in tune to global symphonies. "83
'CORRECT' WORDS
What is the condition of the ionosphere, after the rocket scientists went
ahead with 15 years of burning through it with rocket exhaust and, puny in
comparison, the early generation of ionospheric heaters? Is it damaged?
Manning found that scientists dislike the word "damaged"; it's too strong,
one ionospheric physicist said. "We say 'disturbed'...you know it is going to be the
same as it was before. If you lose your leg, that's damage, but if it is just cut, that's
not damage."
The head of his department set the tone for this attitude. Although there were
ionospheric specialists on his staff, he told Manning that he has neither the interest
nor the time to get too deeply involved in the topic of ionospheric heaters. "Why are
you interested (in HAARP)?"
The journalist replied that she had some questions about a reported
multiplying effect from the new ionospheric instrument, and the tone of his reply was
amused putdown. "If you're concerned about the ionosphere over Vancouver
vanishing..."
"I'm not trying to be an alarmist..."
"It sounded like it," he said.
No wonder the media doesn't push environmental topics, the reporter
thought.
UNREPENTANT ALARMIST
That department head would not welcome the views of Paul Schaefer, who
sounds an alarm vigorously. His degree is in electrical engineering and he spent four
years building nuclear weapons. "But most of the theories that we have been taught
by scientists to believe in seem to be falling apart," he says.84
82 Letter from David Yarrow to Gar Smith, Earth Island Journal, August 18,1995.
83 Ibid.
84 Letter to Jeane Manning from Paul Schaefer, Feb. 1995.
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In a publication titled, "Energy and Our Earth", he synthesizes research
about imbalances caused by the industrial and atomic age, especially by radiation of
large numbers of tiny, high velocity particles "like very small spinning tops into our
environment.These highly energetic particles radiate into the earth and its
atmosphere, disrupting the natural balance, in a chain reaction fashion as they
desperately seek a balance with their surroundings." Such particles accumulate in the
polar region during winter. "When polar spring occurs, the repulsive effect of the
sun's energy causes the entire mass of negatively charged particles to move
toward
the earth, creating a hole in the ozone layer."
The unnatural levels of motion of highly energetic particles in the
atmosphere and in radiation belts surrounding Earth is the villain in the weather
disruptions, according to this model, which describes an Earth discharging its
buildup of heat, relieving stress and regaining a balanced condition through
earthquakes and volcanic action.85 Among the technologies which produce clouds of
particles - unnaturally elevated in charge - are transmission lines, electronic warfare
systems, command, control and communications systems for space flights and
testing of Star Wars weapon systems.
'FEVERISH' EARTH
"One might compare the abnormal energetic state of the Earth and its
atmosphere to a car battery which has become overcharged with the normal flow of
energy jammed up, resulting in hot spots, electrical arcing, physical cracks and
general turbulence as the pent-up energy tries to find some place to go."
In a second analogy, Schaefer says "Unless we desire the death of our planet,
we must end the production of unstable particles which are generating the earth's
fever. A first priority to prevent this disaster would be to shut down all nuclear power
plants and end the testing of atomic weapons, electronic warfare and 'Star Wars'."
William van Bise and Elizabeth Rauscher note that orbiting hardware is
praised as a way to study the ozone layer, but each time a space shuttle burns its way
through the sky it destroys another increment of the ionosphere, just as every
meteorite does. Then as if rocket exhausts have not done enough, space capsules have
ejected chemicals that dramatically interact with charged particles.
"They light up the aurora borealis (artificially), but when they light it up
completely is when they kill off the ionospheric layers."
Meanwhile, the military builds its biggest ionospheric heater yet, to
deliberately create more instabilities in a huge plasma layer - the ionosphere - and to
rev up the energy level of charged particles.
85 Information from Paul Schaefer, Kansas City, MO 64110.
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"We can artificially influence the earth's aurora with a relatively small amount of
energy, and we know that outbursts of the northern lights do change weather
patterns." Gary Lockhart, author of The Weather Companion86
"If the ionosphere is greatly disturbed, the atmosphere below
is subsequently disturbed."
Charles A. Yost87
Chapter Nine
TESLA'S WEATHER APPRENTICES
Archimedes (287-212 B.C.) started a Long tradition of ambitious engineers
who want to make their mark on the world. "Give me a long enough lever and a place
to stand on and I will move the Earth," Archimedes said. Fortunately, he never found
that big a tool. More than twenty centuries later, his spirit lives on in the military's
engineers. They would like to at least be able to move the upper-atmosphere jet
stream, changing global weather to one country's advantage.
Is electromagnetism that tool? Two scientists from the Stanford University
Radioscience Laboratory, H.C. Chang and U.S. Iman, are among the experts who
offer evidence of what our technology can do to affect the sky by making waves on
earth.They have published papers about electron precipitation from the
magnetosphere (the outer belts of charged particles which stream toward Earth's
magnetic poles) caused by man-made very low frequency electromagnetic waves.88
"These precipitated particles can produce secondary ionization, emit X-rays, and
cause significant perturbation in the lower ionosphere."
In 1974 Dr. Robert Helliwell and John Katsufrakis of Stanford University's
radio science laboratory showed that very low frequency radio waves can vibrate the
magnetosphere. In the Antarctic, with a 20km antenna and five kiloHertz transmitter,
they learned that the magnetosphere can be modulated to cause high energy particles
to cascade into Earth's atmosphere. By turning the signal on or off, they could stop
the flow of energetic particles.
WEATHER CONTROL
Avalanches of energy dislodged by such radio waves could hit us hard. "The
theoretical implication suggested by their work is that global weather control can be
attained by the injection of relatively small 'signals' into the Van Allen belts
(radiation belts around Earth) - something like a super-transistor effect," said
Frederic Jueneman. The columnist for Industrial Research magazine speculated further,
"If Tesla's resonance effects, as shown by the Stanford team, can control enormous
86 Gary Lockhart. "Ancient Ham Making". The Weather Companion, p. 199, Wiley & Sons Inc. NY.
87 Charles A. Yost, "Electrical Forces Applied to Basic Weather Phenomena", paper presented at
1992 International Aerospace and Ground Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity.
88 H.C. Chang and U.S.Iman, "Quasi-Relativistic Electron Precipitation due to Interactions with
Coherent VLF Waves in the Magnetosphere" Journal of Geophysical Research, Jan. 1, 1983.
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energies by minuscule triggering signals, then by an extension of this principle we
should be able to affect the field environment of the very stars in the sky...With
godlike arrogance, we someday may yet direct the stars in their courses."89
The question is will that knowledge be used by war-oriented or biosphereoriented scientists?
A 1977 editorial in Saturday Review warned about weather warfare and
called it a moral issue, saying "If the world is in for a long spell of crippling
weather, then we are fools and monsters if we don't get together for the purpose of
mounting a response as though our life depended on it - as indeed it does."90
A series of weather disasters began in 1960, according to a CIA report
mentioned in the editorial, but at the time climatologists couldn't look ahead and see
that droughts, floods and abnormal temperatures would continue beyond that
decade. As if natural disasters weren't bad enough, the CIA reported that
national governments were already able to manipulate weather for military
purposes. The editorialist had an impertinent thought: "It is difficult to read the CIA
report without wondering whether some of the climatic aberrations in recent years
may not have been part of military experimental programs."
Saturday Review's 1977 editorial used strong words to describe the
desensitization of the public and decision makers - a deadening of moral indignation
that came from seeing an endless procession of super-weapons. That process was
described as mass insanity. "If the collective conscience does not now respond,
then all our philosophy and religion and education,..have been abstract,
irrelevant, futile."
The collective conscience was silent, however, and by 1995 the military
has had another 18 years to work on weather warfare methods, which it
euphemistically calls weather modification. For example, rainmaking technology
was taken for a few test rides in Vietnam. The DoD sampled lightning and hurricanemanipulation studies in Project Skyfire and Project Stormfury. And they looked at
some complicated technologies that would give big effects. Lowell Ponte, author of
The Cooling, says the military studied both lasers and chemicals which they figured
could damage the ozone layer over an enemy. Looking at ways to cause earthquakes,
as well as to detect them, was part of the project code named Prime Argus, decades
ago. The money for that came from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA, now under the acronym ARPA.)
In 1993 Air Force Chief of staff General Merrill McPeak told a meeting of
the U.S. Space Foundation that those opposing a larger military role in space must
reconsider their viewpoint. He emphasized that the country must develop new
systems so that it can control the space environment in the future. He and other Air
Force officials wouldn't say what they had in mind, but said that new systems are more
of
a
political
question
than
a
technological
challenge.91
89 Frederic Jueneman, industrial Research magazine Feb. 1974, quoted by Margaret Cheney, Tesla:
Man Out of Time, p. 287.
90 "Weather Modification", unsigned editorial, Saturday Review 2 5 77, p, 4.
91 Neff Hudson an Andrew Lawler, "USAF Chief Calls for Space Defense Upgrades", Space News
Apr. 19-25 1993.
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The next year the Air Force revealed a bit more - its Spacecast 2020 master
plan includes weather control as a possible new weapons initiative. Defense News
excerpted the report. Under "weather control", the article said that scientists have
experimented with weather control since the 1940's, but Spacecast 2020 noted that
"using environmental modification techniques to destroy, damage or injure another
state are prohibited". Having said that, the Air Force claimed that advances in
technology "compels a reexamination of this sensitive and potentially risky
topic."92
What could the new technology do? For one, military forces may have the
tool for zapping a hole through a cloud in order to target their enemy. That would be
costly and risky, but "the potential benefits for national security could be even
higher".
Air Force officials said the weather control section of their report is
classified and won't be released.
40 YEARS OF ZAPPING THE SKY?
As far back as 1958, the chief White House advisor on weather
modification, Captain Howard T. Orville, said the U.S. DoD was studying "ways to
manipulate the charges of the earth and sky and so affect the weather" by using an
electronic beam to ionize or deionize the atmosphere over a given area.93
In 1966, Professor Gordon J. F. MacDonald, associate director of the
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los
Angeles, was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee, and later a
member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality. He published papers on
the use of environmental control technologies for military purposes. MacDonald
made a revealing comment:
"The key to geophysical warfare is the identification of environmental
instabilities to which the addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly
greater amounts of energy. "94
MacDonald had a number of ideas for using the environment as a weapon
system and he contributed to what was, at the time, the dream of a futurist. When he
wrote his chapter, "How To Wreck The Environment", for the book Unless Peace
Comes.95 he was not kidding around. In the text he describes the use of weather
manipulation, climate modification, polar ice cap melting or destabilization, ozone
depletion techniques, earthquake engineering, ocean wave control and brain wave
manipulation utilizing the planet's energy fields. He also said that these types of
92 "Air Force Space Master Plan Envisions Weather Control", Defense News, Sept 26-Oct. 2, 1994.
93 Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Penguin
Books, Mass. 1976.
94 Unless Peace Comes. A Scientific Forecast of New Weapons. Edited By Nigel Calder,
Geophysical Warfare, How to Wreak the Environment by Gordon J. F. MacDonald, pges 181-205,
1968. (provided by: International Committee for The Convention Against Offensive Microwave
Weapons)
95 Ibid.
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weapons would be developed and, when used, would be virtually undetectable by their
victims. He was not some wire haired fanatic when he made these observations in
1966 - he had the credentials of a world recognized scientist. What his futuristic
concepts became, are the things which projects like HAARP are made of...
U.S. Congress' subcommittee hearings on Oceans and International
Environment looked into military weather and climate modification conducted in the
early 1970's. "What emerged was an awesome picture of far ranging research and
experimentation by the DoD into ways environmental tampering could be used as a
weapon," said Lowell Ponte.96
The revealed secrets surprised legislators. Would an inquiry into the state of
the art of electromagnetic manipulation surprise lawmakers today? They may find out
that technologies developed out of the HAARP experiments in Alaska could
deliver
on Gordon MacDonald's vision, because leading edge scientists are describing global
weather as not only air pressure and thermal systems, but also as an electrical system.
'SMALL INPUT, BIG EFFECT'
A point to remember is that the ionosphere is an active electrical shield
protecting the planet from the constant bombardment of high-energy particles from
space. This conducting plasma, along with Earth's magnetic field, traps the electrical
plasma of space and holds it back from going directly to the earth's surface, says
Charles Yost of Dynamic Systems, Leicester, North Carolina. HAARP zaps the
ionosphere where it is relatively unstable.
"If the ionosphere is greatly disturbed, the atmosphere below is
subsequently disturbed. "97
It is reasonable to expect Earth's relatively thin atmosphere of insulating
gas (water vapor) to be mechanically pushed and pulled by the surrounding electrical
forces, Yost says. Electrical currents in the ionosphere are said to be 100 times larger
than those produced lower down at any moment by all the world's thunderstorms. Yost
concludes that electrical forces should be included along with thermodynamics,
gravity waves and effects of Earth's rotation, as causes of weather variations.
According to his experiments and analyses, ionospheric currents and changing
magnetic fields in the ionosphere must produce "global oscillating gradients" that go
down as far as the ground.
A connection between manmade electromagnetic forces and the weather
showed up in a paper Yost wrote about lightning and earth harmonics. The apparent
global interaction of electrical storms prompted Yost to take another look at how
clouds form. He found that electrostatic forces can influence the dynamics of cumulus
clouds. On a copy of his paper that Yost sent to Jeane Manning, he wrote "man can
make these levels of force artificially".
96 The Cooling, by Lowell Ponte. Prentice-Hall inc. NJ 1976.
97 Charles A. Yost, "Electrical Forces Applied to Basic Weather Phenomena", Proceedings of the
1992 International Aerospace and Ground Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity, Atlantic
City, 1992. Document available through Nat'l Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia,
22161.
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In its early stages, a currtulo nimbus cloud's transition layer is in a delicately
balanced condition of pressure, temperature and water vapor content, according to
Yost, "such that minor change triggers condensation. A radiation particle, a localized
electric field transient or a slight local thermal disturbance might trigger the change
of state," Yost said.
The first two factors may help explain strange extremes of weather over
industrialized/electrified/atomic-powered North America. For one thing, the
unnatural 60 hz electromagnetic fluctuations from a dense web of powerlines have
entrained the vibrations of the ionosphere in some places. Again, Tesla's favorite
phenomenon - resonance - explains how a relatively small force can have large
effects.
Dr. Robert O. Becker explains how one man-made electrical effect - power
line harmonic resonance - causes fallout of charged particles from the Van Allen
(radiation) belts, and how the falling ions cause ice crystals (which precipitate rain
clouds).98
What about HAARP? Energy blasted upward from an ionospheric heater is
not much compared to the total in the ionosphere, but HAARP documents admit that
thousandfold greater amounts of energy can be released in the ionosphere than
injected. As with MacDonald's "key to geophysical warfare", "nonlinear" effects
(described in the literature about the ionospheric heater) mean small input and large
output.
At a 1983 science conference in Atlanta, one of the presentations held clues
about where engineers and physicists were heading with that small input/ large output
goal.99 E.E. Richards talked about the above mentioned Stanford University
experiment in beaming VLF radio waves to the magnetosphere. The signals followed
the curves of the magnetic field and swung back to Earth. They were detected halfway
around the world away from their origin in California. In some cases the signals were
amplified a thousand times.
What strengthens these radio signals a thousandfold? According to
Richards' research, the signals gather energy from electrons within the Van Allen
radiation belts which surround Earth's atmosphere. Each time one of the world's fifty
or so VLF (3 to 30 KHz) transmitters sends out its signal; streams of excited particles
from the outermost regions of the magnetosphere cascade into our atmosphere. "Even
low frequency (LF: 30-300 KHz) radio waves leak into the upper layers, causing this
same phenomenon. The injection of small signals into the energy belts creates
something like a super-transistor effect, altering the motion of free electrons
thousands of miles out from the earth's surface. This Tesla Magnifying Resonance
effect can control enormous energies by minuscule triggering signals." As did Nikola
Tesla, Richards works with the principle of resonance.
98 Hobert O. BecKer, The Body Electric, William Morrow NY 1985.
99 E.E. Richards, "Earth Power Spectrum", Proceedings, The Second International Symposium on
Non-Conventional Energy Technology, p. 136, Cadake Publishing, PO Box 1490, Clayton, Georgia
30525.
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In a recent interview100, Richards explained the super-transistor effect
which others also describe as an avalanche of electrons. At certain frequencies and at a
certain energetic threshold, there is a large energy transfer between levels in the
upper atmosphere.
EFFECTS REACH THE GROUND
How far down from the magnetosphere or ionosphere through the
atmosphere can such an "avalanche" come? Surprisingly, in various locations
Richards found effects reaching the earth. The first time he saw this recorded on
scientific instruments, he was living at 8,000 feet above sea level in central-west
New Mexico where the air was clear and electromagnetically quiet. That day there
was
a large buildup of electrical energy in the atmosphere very close to the surface of the
earth, but not a thunderstorm condition. As the non-lightning electrical condition
passed through the area, Richards and his associates monitored surprisingly large
oscillations (vibrations) on their antennae array and learned at what frequencies the
local atmosphere readily vibrates. The vibrations charged capacitors (energy storage
units) to a rather high voltage.
One quiet March day while monitoring the Russian and American ELF
transmissions, they tried running an antenna array (twisted wires) a mile along the
ground, and received unexpectedly strong and continuous signals. Briefly, the
findings and further monitoring were a springboard for discovering correlations with
harmonic interactions between the planets. They also learned how nature handles the
influx of cosmic energy towards earth's surface through the auroral vibrations. The
researchers saw how energies could be stored within the magnetosphere, and "we
have a mechanism, confirming Tesla, for drawing this energy into the lower
atmospheric cavity."
'COUPLING' BETWEEN IONOSPHERE AND WEATHER
While Richards' interest in their work was to find a usable clean- energy
source for the inhabitants of Earth, physicists at Stanford University worked on a
government funded project. They wanted to amplify waves in the magnetosphere for
the goal of global communication at lower frequencies.101
The authors of this book have a different aim - to understand the ramifications of the
high-level experiments. Could it affect our weather? The atmospheric physicists we
have spoken to are vague in their answers.
The paper by Richards gives strong clues. Recent scientific evidence
suggests that strong electrical coupling exists between the ionosphere and lower
atmosphere, he said. Large scale horizontal electric fields move down from the
magnetosphere and ionosphere, with little loss of amplitude, to around ten
kilometers above the earth, he said, "The total potential voltage drop across regions
like the polar caps and the auroral ionosphere can be a significant fraction of the
average ionospheric potential with respect to the earth..."
100 E.E. Richards, conversation with Jeane Manning, May 1995,
101 "VLF: Getting Panicles Excited," Science News, Dec, 18 and 25, 1982, pg. 392.
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What this means to us is that there is a powerful electrical connection
between the ionosphere and the part of the atmosphere where our weather comes
onstage, the lower atmosphere. Furthermore, scientific theories describe how the
electrical energetic levels of the atmosphere are connected to cloud processes. 102
E.E. Richards reported the following conclusions from his search of the
literature. "The conducting ionosphere can affect the instability by short circuiting
the electrostatic part of the earth electric field, thus requiring less energy to release
charge from the upper layers. These auroral arcs result in an acceleration process
called ring currents, precessing along the magnetic field lines that connect the
magnetotail with the ionosphere. This is the primary supply of energy for the
auroras..."
He explains how electrostatic waves stimulate the ionosphere, allowing the
powerful radiations described above to flow in from space. He adds that observations
from satellites and from the ground tend to confirm Nikola Tesla's claims about his
Colorado Springs experiments. "With his oscillator he was able to stimulate the
ionosphere through high voltage, and then allow the cascading of the upper layer
currents, thereby simulating the natural action of the aurora and also of lightning."
Tesla was one of several inventors cited by E.E. Richards who were on the
path to using the "abundant energy source that surrounds us each minute". Humanity
lives within the cosmically stimulated bubble of the magnetosphere, Richards said,
and upon the twirling spherical generator that is the earth. In the spirit of previous
generations of scientists called natural philosophers, he is awed by the beauty of the
system. In our experience, this appreciation of the processes of the universe often
comes to independent researchers who aim to work in harmony with nature. In other
words, resonance seems a gentler way to transfer power than direct zapping.
The weather can be changed using electrostatics. A discovery allowing the
manipulation of weather was made by Elate Intelligent Technologies, Incorporated, a
small Russian company. They found a way to fine tune weather patterns over a 200
mile range. The "system consists of dozens of aerials, each 25 feet tall, that discharge
electrical energy upward to react with ions in the air". 103 These aerials are connected
to a computer system and power supply which is controlled by an operator to create
the desired effects.
Lev Pokhmelnykh is the company founder and a respected physicist,
specializing in "electrostatics". Pokhmelnykh demonstrated the system for the Wall
Street Journal reporter with startling results. He used the system to clear clouds in an
otherwise dreary day. The technology points out how little we know about such
effects and the way weather can be manipulated by people.
102 Ralph Markson and Michael Muir, "Solar Wind Control of the Earth's Electrical Field", Science,
May 30, 1980, Vol. 208 No. 4447.
103 Adi Ignatius, "Rain, Rain, Go Away, Go Soak Someone Less Willing to Pay; Moscow Firm
Offers 'Weather Made to Order'; Our Man Requests Three Days", The Wall Street Journal, October 2,
1992, pg. A1 & A11.
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There was another unexpected discovery of an atmospheric phenomenon in
1993. It was found that the Earth's lower atmosphere contains "rivers of water vapor
rivaling the Amazon in the massiveness of their flow". 104 Reginald E. Newell of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported that these vapor rivers were the main
mechanism for moving water from the equatorial regions of the earth to the poles.
However, he did not expect to find that the water vapor was contained in narrow bands
which are 420 to 480 miles wide and up to 4,800 miles long. These bands are about
1.9 miles above the earth, and have flow volumes of 165 million kilograms of water
per second. The observers found that there are five atmospheric rivers in the Northern
Hemisphere and five in the Southern Hemisphere, each with these typical flow rates.
We speculate that if HAARP were located at the right place, it could be used
to deflect these flows in a way that alter weather patterns. This is another concern
which should be considered in the operation of HAARP - a fact not known before
HAARP was planned.
BEAMING ABOUT TESLA'S ELECTRIC GUN
Weapons-oriented researchers, on the other hand, are quite interested in
other, more invasive, aspects of Tesla's knowledge besides resonance, such as the
"explosive channelization of air" which he is said to have learned about this
phenomena as he injected successive pulses of energy along the same channel,
According to Dr. J.F.X.Daum, Ken Corum and Dr. James Corum, Teste experimented
with atmospheric tunneling. By the 3930's Teste had invented a "channelized beam
composed of a coherent burst of electrically charged material particles" moving as
fast as the speed of light. The three scientists calculated that such a particle beam
would easily pierce armored vehicles.105
COULD THEY SHORT CIRCUIT EARTH?
Earth as a spherical electrical system is a fairly well accepted model.
However, those experimenters who want to make unnatural power connections
between parts of this system might not be thinking of possible consequences.
Electrical motors and generators can be caused to wobble when their circuits are
affected. Could human activities cause a significant change in a planet's electrical
circuit or electrical field? A quote plucked from a lengthy paper in the respected
journal Science deals with manmade ionization from radioactive material, but perhaps
it could also be studied with HAARP-type skybusters in mind:
"For example, while changes in the earth's electric field resulting f,om a
solar flare modulating conductivity may have only a barely detectable effect on
meteorology, the situation may be different in regard to electric field changes caused
by manmade ionization,,."106
104 Kathy Sawyer, "Climatology: Space Data Indicate Rivers in the Sky,", The Washington Post,
Science Notebook, Jan. 25, 1993.
105 "Thoughts on Tesla's Particle Beam Technology", presentation by Or. J.F.X. Daum, Ken Corum
and Dr. James Corum to International Tesla Society.
106 Ralph Markson and Michael Muir, "Solar Wind Control of the Earth's Electrical Field", Science,
May 30,1980, Vol. 208 No. 4447, p. 989.
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Meteorology, of course, is the study of the atmosphere and weather.
Ionization is what happens when a higher level of power is zapped into atoms and
knocks electrons off the atoms. The resulting charged particles are the stuff of
HAARP. "One took at the weather should tell us that we are on the wrong path," says
Paul Schaefer, electrical engineer, commenting on HAARP-type technologies.
An administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
once said, "It is not possible to draw clear distinctions between research and
technological development on weather modification for hostile and non-hostile
purposes."
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"Our planetary environment is becoming progressively more energetic, with unusual
activity, like mysterious bursts of energy that mimic radio waves from atomic
explosions, being detected in the atmosphere..."
Paul Schaefer, engineer and researcher, Kansas City MO.
"The Earth is becoming a disturbed planet, and man is doing the disturbing."
Acres USA
Chapter Ten
PUTTING THE HEAT ON MOM EARTH
The journey toward understanding "Tesla technology" had taken Jeane
Manning to science conferences in Germany in 1987 and Switzerland two years
later.
At both meetings, she heard an American astrophysicist, Adam Trombly, give
eloquent speeches on environmental issues. A protege of the late Buckminster Fuller,
Trombly had founded the non-profit Project Earth through which he worked with
other scientists toward understanding global ecosystems - the big picture.
In July of 1995, Manning telephoned Trombly at the Institute of Advanced
Studies at Aspen, Colorado, to ask about possible effects of the HAARP-type
experiments which would make artificial electromagnetic storms above the earth experiments which would lift parts of the ionosphere and would literally expand those
areas while accelerating more high energy particles in the already energetic
ionosphere.
HAARP would add more energy to a global system that is already stretched,
replied the scientist. By "stretched", he meant hyperstimulated by particle flows from
the sun. To put it into perspective, think of our planet as a somewhat wobbly dynamo
motoring around a sun. Our sun is an aging star and getting unreliable, to say the
least. Through telescopes, people have been eying sunspots since Galileo's time, and
learned that magnetic storms above Earth and the northern lights are connected to
those dark patches on the sun. In recent decades our sun has been throwing major
fits
- spewing larger than usual bursts of high energy particles into our planet's systems.
Some of this hyperactivity started before men got into the act with nuclear
explosions. With an effect similar to solar flares, manmade Tadiation from atomic
technologies adds to the crossfire of super-speedy particles in which we live.
It's difficult to tell how long the sun has been going through a hyperactive
cycle, because sensitive scientific instruments to measure "coronal hole activity" on
the sun are fairly new. A thorough study has only been possible in the last couple of
decades. (The corona is the super-hot halo of plasma around the sun.)
Judging by the increase in the geomagnetic "noise" (disturbances in the
earth's magnetic field) heard on earth, some scientists speculate that the sun may be
approaching a time of change. Whether or not the sun goes through a time of
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spectacular hot flashes in the near future and throws even more particles at Earth, the
fact is that Earth is being affected right now.
EARTH GETS HOTTER
"Eleven years ago we were predicting ground heating," Trombly said, "...the
earth actually getting hotter inductively."
(To understand what he was talking about, Manning later had to turn to a
dictionary of science. Induction heating means that electrically conducting material in this case, materials in the earth - is heated as a result of the electric current
induced in it by an alternating magnetic field (due to interaction with the sun and
even with the moon). She began to see how Earth's magnetic field could be in
danger of breaking down and opening the way for a pole shift. Heat is an enemy to
the strength of a magnet. (The fact that the earth is getting hotter was reported in the
New York Times in 1991. The article said that Arctic ice had decreased by 2% in only
a nine year period.) 107
Trombly was saying that before men detonated underground nuclear tests or
did anything else that was massively invasive to the state of balance of Earth's
systems, we were already on an unstable planet. When will Earth be
electrodynamically saturated with an "energy burden" from the sun? "The system is
already at near-terminal capacity in our opinion," said Trombly.
Then HAARP comes along..."a project that could further
destabilize an earth that's already an unstable environment", as Trombly put it. The
thought of a planet whose systems are overloaded, and which may soon reach the
point where it couldn't take any more high-energy particles, was sobering. Manning
thought about the enthusiastic attitude of the scientists and military contractors
whom the NO HAARP group called "the big boys with the big toys". Those big time
experimenters admit that they don't know what will happen when they push
ionospheric heating experiments into the next level of effects. They seem to be
excited about the macho adventure of passing the next "threshold of effects" in the
ionosphere, and do not hesitate to pump gigawatts of power up there and
intentionally accelerate particles in the ionosphere to "relativistic" speeds - nearly
the speed of light. Why would they be so irresponsible?
Trombly answered in a word - denial. The decision makers are not being
malicious, Trombly said; they are just refusing to face the facts about how flimsy is
the web of life on Earth. "We do not want to admit that we are in a situation that is
tenuous, where there are gradual (planetary) processes that are punctuated by
catastrophic processes."
Specialists tend to look at their own experiments as isolated incidents,
without seeing long term effects on larger systems, Trombly noted. As Manning
heard him talk about lack of respect for Earth's systems, she thought about a
107 "Receding Ice on Arctic Sea Hints at Global Warming" by William K. Stevens, New York Times,
July 4, 1991, pg. A11.
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professor she had interviewed who was connected with HAARP. The professor's
enthusiasm encompassed the possibility of HAARP creating a massive airglow in the
ionosphere, and of giving his doctoral students some technical challenges so they
could get their Ph.D.s.
Could their experiments set off a catastrophe? The research of the Institute
for Advanced Studies looks into such questions. For example, earth monitoring with
sensitive instruments revealed a connection between underground nuclear tests and
earthquakes.
While nuclear explosions zap more high energy particles into our global
environment, HAARP specifically gives a sharp jab to the ionosphere. Trombly is
concerned about atmospheric storms "once you create a point-like stress
differential... What is it going to do in terms of gating influx from particles, from the
magnetosphere down?...we already have real problems with particle influx into this
planet, now."
Pole Shift
The Soviets considered the impact of electromagnetic "smog" on living
organisms. They concluded that because living organisms evolved under the influence
of the Earth's micropulsations in the magnetic field, changes in these pulsations
might alter fundamental body rhythms, including the rate that DNA replicates. From
the Soviet perspective, electromagnetic pulses can influence everything from health
to behavior. Russian scientists are also concerned that continued increases in
electromagnetic radiations could contribute to a premature and cataclysmic reversal or
position shift of Earth's poles, 108
Western scientists have noted that chemical changes occur which can
account for some effects of electromagnetic pulses on living systems. James D. Hays
of Columbia University found microorganism extinctions corresponding to pole
reversals. He believes that, in some way, these living creatures used the magnetic
fields of the earth. When the fields were altered by reversal, they died,109 This issue
was also explored by one of the country's leaders in bioelectric science, Robert O.
Becker, M.D. His research results also pointed to similar findings as those of the
Soviets - animal extinctions.110
The possibility of electromagnetic pollution bringing changes that could
cause a pole shift is alarming. However, the interrelationship of earth movement and
atmospheric effects was discussed in a 1991 article.111 It is known that Earth slows
down by about 1.4 milliseconds every century, but scientists more recently
discovered that this can also happen in jumps.
108 Cross. Currents, The Perils of Electropollution, The Promise of Electromedicine, by Robert O.
Becker, M,D.
109 "The Mind Fields", by Kathleen McAuliffe, Omni Magazine, February 1985.
110 Ibid.
111 "Fitfully, the Rotation of the Earth is Slowing", by John Noble Wilford, The New York Times,
August 9, 1991.
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They already knew that tidal forces from the gravitational effects of the
moon, sun and other astronomical bodies contribute to slowing the Earth's spin. The
new discovery is that wind, polar ice melting, ocean currents and movements within
the Earth's molten core are causing an increased slowing. The forces generated by
atmospheric motion have the most significant impact on either speeding up or
slowing down the spin rate. In the article, Dr. Jean Dickey of the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory said that "Ninety percent of these variations are caused by changes in
wind", when describing the shifts in atmospheric mass such as that associated with El
Nino. (El Nino is a periodic change in ocean currents which have altered weather
patterns.) Dr. Dickey said, "If the atmosphere is speeding up. Earth is slowing down".
The movement of atmospheric mass adds stress over new portions of the
earth, and lowers stress in other parts. This shift in pressure or forces in the planet
can increase earthquake frequency in all areas which experience changes in
atmospherically created stresses.
This can be related to the HAARP technologies, because changing
ionospheric balance might shift weather patterns that are already contributing to the
planet's instabilities. How much stress is needed or created by this kind of
experimentation is unknown. What is known is that the Earth is a balanced organism
which is increasingly being affected by reckless experimentation, either deliberate or
out of ignorance.
The idea that these kinds of weapon systems could be used for weather
modification is not new. The real work leading to the area of geophysical warfare
goes back to at least 1958, when the chief White House advisor on weather
modification, Captain Howard T. Orville, said the Defense Department was studying
"ways to manipulate the changes of the earth and sky and so affect weather" by using
"an electronic beam to ionize or deionize the atmosphere over a given area." 112
As far back as 1977, scientists observed that just the location of power
plant clusters could affect weather as much as could intentional injection of power
into the atmosphere. They discovered that when power plants are clustered together,
they alter local weather patterns. Within six to twelve miles downwind of these
facilities, rainfall could increase by as much as 25 percent more than normal, and at
further distances rainfall might decrease. They concluded that the changes were the
result of released heat. 113 The heat energy alone released by technology can have a
debilitating effect on weather patterns!
Earth's equilibrium is undergoing other disconcerting shifts. This again
shows our lack of understanding of the complex processes of the planet. A New York
Times article said that wave heights in the northeast Atlantic had risen by up to 20
percent since the 1960's. The reported study took more than two decades, so the effect
could not be explained away by seasonal variations. 114 The article explained that
112
The Cooling, by Lowell Ponte, 1976, page 169.
113 "Cluster of Power Plants Found to Change Weather", The New York Times, June 5,1977.
114 "Puzzled Scientists Find Waves Off Britain Are Growing Larger", the New York Times, April 19,
1988, pg. C4.
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these changes in wave heights could be caused by weather system changes occurring a
thousand miles away. Tampering via HAARP will only exaggerate such anomalies in
the upper atmosphere, and perhaps set in motion a chain reaction.
Electrical power generation and use of energy in the northeastern United
States steadily increased over the same two decades. Could it be that the "downwind"
effects of weather, described earlier, could be contributing to this wave height
observation? Could we be reaching a new level where instabilities will tilt over some
unknown threshold, thereby causing unexpected geophysical reactions?
ACUPUNCTURE POINTS
There are simpler ways to look at Mom Earth's natural electrical system.
For example, Adam Trombly said the acupuncture model is relevant. "What happens
when you overstimulate an acupuncture point? You can give somebody a heart
attack very easily with a very low amplitude input...Hit one of those ionospheric
acupuncture points in the dynamic matrix of the ionosphere as a wave guide - what
is the effect going to be?"
He challenges HAARP scientists to answer a big question before they send
multi-gigawatt pulses up to the ionosphere. "What are the saturation parameters
for the ionosphere?"
Manning asked him about the warning implied in the book Lost Millennium
by Walter and Leigh Richmond. In that novel, "advanced" technology tapped into the
ionosphere successfully, until one day when the timing was unfortunate. A solar
flare set off an unquenchable avalanche of electrons that traveled back down the
technicians' beam and fried a planet. Could today's ionosphere modifying scientists
make a similar mistake?
"That's what I'm talking about," Trombly said quietly.
Technically, he explained what could happen in an electrodynamically
saturated situation. If a natural source - solar - hyperstimulates the entire system, it
could cause "chaotic dissipative motions". Events in the ionosphere then could
stretch way beyond the normal limits of the physics law of conservation of energy.
"It doesn't mean the energy isn't ultimately conserved; it just means that the initial
environment is pervaded with far more energy than we've taken into account." In
order to dissipate this energy, tremendous turbulence develops in the ionosphere and
the magnetosphere.
Manning pondered what she had learned at New Energy Science conferences.
Does twentieth-century textbook science have an incomplete picture of what is in
"empty space"? Could there be interactions with the background sea of
electromagnetic radiations - perhaps from distant stars - that flickers throughout
space? She recalled papers in prestigious science journals that indicate there is a lot
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to learn about the energetic nature of the space that surrounds us.115, 116, 117, 118,
119
Trombiy was saying that for years Russian scientists have documented
unusual effects that violate physicists' expectations - "nonlinear,
nonthermodynamic effects that violate entropy, in the resonant system of the
atmosphere". In the light of these discoveries of unexpected energetic effects, he
raised a few more questions for the skybusting HAARP experimenters.
"Where are those energies coming from? Tell me where the point is when
you reach instability! Tell me what your critical points of stress are, before you do
this!"
The ionosphere exists at a certain level of "magnetoplasmadynamic order".
At various levels of energy, certain gases or elements exist. If the energy level is
dramatically changed, the system goes through a chaotic transition before it
reconstitutes itself at another level of order. Nobel prize winner Ilya Prigogine
documented this self- ordering process in chemical systems. Since then, Trombly and
many others continue to observe atmospheric processes in the light of this
background understanding.
Resonance - a phenomenon related to the natural frequency of each part of a
system - figures strongly in Tesla technology as well as in interactions between
electromagnetism and mental processes or living cells which Dr. Nick Begich
researched. Regarding global systems, interconnectedness through resonance is
undeniable, Trombiy said. "We have observed that, when a system is near saturation
you don't know what is going to send it over the line."
LARGE-SCALE ELECTROMAGNETICS
The interconnectedness between the ionosphere and the lithosphere (earth's
crust) or the ionosphere and the inner core of the earth, is partly an inductive
relationship, he said. What does Trombiy mean, using an electrical term such as
"inductive" in relation to layers of the earth? He admits that some "people who call
themselves geophysicists would scratch their heads; they wouldn't know what I was
talking about. But there plenty of other ones who are good enough with
electromagnetic systems on a grand scale, who would at least stop and pause before
they would do anything as stupid as send multi-gigawatt pulses into the ionosphere.
Since earthquakes are known to cause the ionosphere to react
electromagnetically, Manning asked if the reverse could happen - could pulsed
disturbances in the ionosphere set off earthquakes?
115 Daniel C. Cole and Harold E. Puthoff, "Extracting Energy and Heat from the Vacuum", Physical
Review E, Vol. 48 No. 2, Aug. 1993.
116 Bernard Haisch, Alfonso Rueda and Harold Puthoff "Beyond E=mc2", The Sciences,
November/Dec. 1994, pp 26-31.
117 Harold Puthoff, "Ground State of Hydrogen as a Zero-point-fluctuation-determined State," Phys.
Rev. D, Vol. 33, No. 10, May 15, 1987 pp 3266-3269.
118 Harold Puthoff, "Source of Vacuum Electromagnetic Zero-Point Energy", Physical Review A,
Vol. 40, No, 9, Nov. 1 1989, PP 4857-4862.
119 Puthoff, Harold, "Everything for Nothing", New Scientist, July 28, 1990.
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He replied that he would not be so naive as just to say "yes, if they stimulate
the ionosphere in this way then they're going to set off earthquakes. However, I
would not be so cavalier as to say that if they happen to stimulate the ionosphere at a
moment when it is already saturated, or near saturation, that they couldn't set off an
event that could induce chaos - where you could end up having a kind of magnetic
storming, almost a runaway event up there."
In documents the HAARP planners put together in 1990 they say that they
were intentionally trying to get a "runaway" effect in the ionosphere. This effect was
new and would represent an energy threshold not yet reached with these kinds of
military tools. The document said "...that at the highest HF (high frequency) powers
available in the West, the instabilities commonly studied are approaching (heir
maximum RF (radio frequency) energy dissipative capability, beyond which the
plasma processes will 'runaway' until the next limiting factor is reached."120 What
will happen when this runaway event occurs?
Trombly pointed out a similarity between the decision to pulse several
gigawatts into the ionosphere (HAARP) without knowing what will happen, and the
first atomic weapon testing. Years afteT that test, physicist Robert Oppenheimer
admitted that the scientists had not known what would happen when they set off the
bomb - if the chain reaction was going to stop or keep on going. "The government
knew that the scientists didn't know!"
More recently, spectrum analysis work, especially in the ultra low frequency
(ULF) part of the electromagnetic spectrum, has clearly shown how non-linear the
effects from underground nuclear testing were, Trombly said. (Nonlinear means
having an output that is not directly proportional to the input. In other words,
unexpected or unpredictable.) Scientists were completely surprised by these results they represented many many times the expected effect.
HAARP: DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT
Manning commented that Dr. Bernard Eastlund, the inventor of an
ionospheric heater technology which may be a precursor to HAARP, claims the
ionospheric heater approach could change the chemistry of the ionosphere
beneficially. Trombly indicated there were safer ways to increase the ozone content.
"My knee-jerk reaction is still the same," he said. "With a system as close
to saturation as it is, why would 1 believe this guy when he says that by beaming this
into the ionosphere we're going to be able to heal it? I also don't want to be dogmatic
and say it can't work, if it is done properly. But it just doesn't seem like a wise and
prudent act to me."
Trombly sounded discouraged. He and his colleagues at the non-profit
Institute for Advanced Studies use any money that they get from clients for further
research. However, he would consider their efforts a waste of time if the people
with
120 HAARP HF Active Auroral Research Program, Joint Program Plans and Activities, Air Force
Geophysics Laboratory, Navy Office of Naval Research, February 1990.
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big pocketbooks aren't going to do anything constructive about the global
environmental situation.
"There are very basic things we could do if we want to heal the stratosphere.
We already know these things will be effective..."
Will the big money continue to go into destructive instead of constructive
experiments?
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"Trying to pin these guys down is
like nailing jello to the wall."
PART THREE
ELECTROPAINTINGS IN THE SKY
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Chapter Eleven
THE COMPILERS
The NO HAARP group really wasn't a group in the formal sense. The
independent research efforts always flowed to the "library". This was a floating set of
documents which grew to more than three hundred source items. The library was
periodically copied and sent to trusted "compilers" across the globe, and was also
moved from one person to the next depending on who was developing the most data
and had the greatest need for the information at their finger tips at a given time. It
could be said that the NO HAARP members, each acting as their own independent
collection points, were a living Internet. Each person could continue to operate even
if some researchers dropped off the project.
The military presented a challenge to researchers in the way they handle
information in weapon development projects. From the beginning of the
development of the information until the writing of these words, the data on HAARP,
gathered by the compilers, has continued to grow. We recognized that there would be
additional information found even after the first printing of this book but it could be
added later as the collection of facts had an urgency which required publication. We
needed to begin to disclose the potentials of this new weapon system and the risks
associated with it.
Getting information from the military presented a challenge because of the
way they handle information in weapon development projects. The United States
military and intelligence community work under a number of principles. These
include "compartmentalization" and "need-to-know". Compartmentalization is the
idea of taking a large multifaceted project and breaking it down into subparts which
can be researched and devetoped independent of the others. Through
compartmentalization, the concept of need-to-know develops, where only the part
that each individual needs to be aware of is relayed to that person. What these two
concepts allow the military is "containment". A third principle in intelligence
circles. An intelligence circle keeps the project going, but in a way which masks the
overall (government) plan. In the case of the HAARP project, Hanscom Air Force
Base runs the public effort on the program. Kirtland Air Force Base (the home of
high-tech weapons systems) runs the information distribution process, Maxwell Air
Force Base develops doctrine and policy for non-lethal weapon systems and Brooks
Air Force Base puts together research on the bio-effects of radiofrequency radiation.
UCLA, Stanford University, Penn State, and the University of Alaska all work on the
project. Lest we forget, there are also industry contributions by Atlantic Richfield
Company (ARCO) through ARCO Power Technologies Incorporated (APTI), their
subsidiary. E-Systems bought APTI and formed a new subsidiary called APTI. This
company was then acquired by Raytheon Corporation in a huge buyout. 121 There are
many other organizations connected to the project some of whom appear in the
remaining chapters of this book.
121 The Wall Street Journal, "Raytheon to Acquire E-Systems For $64 a Share, or $2.3 Billion, Offer
is 41% Premium Over Friday's Close; Rival Bid Is Unlikely", by Steven Lipin and Jeff Cole, page 1
column 2 and A3 column 1 and A16 column 1, Monday, April 3,1995.
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The HAARP project is part of the larger work of Strategic Defense Initiative
("Star Wars") technologies, a program first brought forward during the Reagan
Administration. We are also certain that many of those associated with this project
are unaware of the other ways HAARP transmitters could be used. The scientists at
work within the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute are specialists
and brilliant leaders in their fields. However, their disciplines do not cross over into
the biological sciences sufficiently to consider the effects of their work on living
things, nor does their work consider the uses of radiofrequency radiation
contemplated by the intelligence community and within the various agencies of the
United States government.
Part three considers the risks to people if these "ionospheric heaters" are
misused. It explores the use of radiofrequency for mind manipulation, as a weapon
system as well as those DoD applications described in the HAARP records.
The information presented throughout this book, it is hoped, will stimulate
people to approach their government projects with the same healthy skepticism
demonstrated by the "guys in the bush" and all of the others who contributed to this
research effort. The people whose stories were told in the first section of the book are
scientists, researchers and very ordinary people who had the will to cause change in
the world.
This part of the book is the work of the "compilers" in weaving together the
tapestry of information developed over what has become years of effort on the part of
many, This is the story behind the story of HAARP.
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Chapter Twelve
TWISTED WORDS, STAR WARS AND POKER FLATS
'Trying to pin these guys down is like nailing jello to the wall," That was
how one "No HAARP" member described the military's public relations efforts on the
project. The HAARP, had little or nothing to do with nature's electropaintings in the
sky, the aurora borealis. The project name was the mask behind which the military
hid, letting the University of Alaska Fairbanks, through the Geophysical Institute,
moved out front on the project, parading it as a research effort with an economic
development spin.
The latest additions to the research have revealed government
disinformation. The first new item was found in the library at the Geophysical
Institutel22 and revealed the true scope planned, over the long term, for HAARP and
the technologies it uses. Other important items recently uncovered were the
remaining nine of twelve patents originally assigned to ARCO Power Technologies
Incorporated (APTI) 123 which would eventually end up in the patent portfolio of
Raytheon Corporation, one of the world's largest companies.
The meetings and information put together by the military as part of the
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process seemed alright to most, although
several people were pretty well informed about the possible ill effects of
radiofrequency radiation. In most areas of the country this level of knowledge would
have been unusual but in "bush" Alaska, radios are a way of life, and many plug into
the planet via satellite dish and Internet connections to stay up on the latest research
in many fields. In the winter, time passes slowly, and the new technologies have
brought relief and stimulation to the minds of many in these remote reaches of North
America. Alaskans also tend to have independent spirits, having had to carve out
their niche in some of the most severe environmental conditions in the world.
Alaskans are a bit skeptical. For many, the EIS meetings raised more questions than
they answered.
The government seemed to try to create the illusion that the project was
standing alone when, in fact, it was tied to a number of other experiments and
systems. The project requires other equipment to run with the HAARP facility, some
of which was described in the military's and University of Alaska Fairbanks' various
documents.
The Poker Flat Rocket Range is the largest land based (5,132 acresl24)
research facility in the world and the only high latitude rocket range in the United
States. It is the only University operated range in the country. Poker Flat Rocket
Range has been funded in past years with NASA grants of $1.5 million annually. The
122 PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195; "Presentations from the HAARP Workshop on
Ionospheric Heating Diagnostics, 30 April - 2 May 1991, Phillips Laboratory (AFSC), Hanscom AFB,
MA. 01731-5000"; Editor, Major Drew Fisher, October 22, 1991.
123 United States Patent Numbers 4686605; 4712155; 4817495; 4873928; 4954709; 4999637;
5038664; 5041834; 5068669; 5202689; 5218374; and 5293176.
124 Geophysical Quarterly, Volume 10, No. 1 & 2, Winter 1992, pg, 1.
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site also received a $30 million upgrade as a part of a national defense bill passed by
the Congress in the early 1990'sl25 when Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu declared, "We plan
to build the best upper atmospheric research facility in the world."126
Public relations communications on HAARP, during 1993 and 1994 denied
that the project was formally tied to the Poker Flat Rocket range. During 1992 the Air
Force funded, under a separate program, the launch of a 17,000 pound rocket carrying
a payload of 2,770 pounds. The Spirit 11 rocket was used to send a high-tech telescope
about 205 miles above the Earth to measure emissions from auroral displays. The
Geophysical Institute disclosed that "Researchers at Hanscom Air Force Base in
Massachusetts plan to use the measurements as a part of a larger Strategic Defense
Initiative Organization (commonly known as Star Wars) study on atmospheric
disturbances. Studying infrared light is important because it can prevent some Air
Force satellites from being able to detect targets, other satellites, or clutter in space,
just as city lights can prevent people from seeing stars in the sky." 127 A number of
otheT military projects have been reported in the Geophysical Institute's publications
which, although they were funded separately, produced information crucial to the
planned uses of HAARP. Many of these kinds of projects are revealed throughout this
book.
At the same time that the HAARP project started, and the Poker Flat
upgrades were funded the University also received, again under separate
Congressional funding, $25 million foT a Cray Supercomputer which the military
indicated was also not "formally" tied to HAARP. 128 However, upon investigating,
it was determined that this computer would be committed to 30% Defense Department
uses. While the military couched their wording in ways that deflected interest away
from these facts, the records were clear. What was not so clear was why they were not
just saying yes, they were going to use all of these systems, yes, these systems
interface with this hardware while being funded under separate programsl29 as
indicated in their own planning documents. It just didn't add up; what was the big deal
anyway?
In a letter to one of Alaska's legislators, the public relations man for
HAARP, John Heckscher, stated that "the HAARP program is not formally tied to the
Poker Flat Rocker Range, nor to the new super-computer at the University of
Alaska... However, the research capabilities associated with those excellent facilities
will undoubtedly be of interest and use to scientists using the HAARP facility."130
John Heckscher was at the military planning sessions which clearly described the use
of these other facilities, The summary of those meetings, in 1990 and 1991,
contained the following: "the incoherent scatter radar facility, envisioned to
complement the planned new HF heater, is currently being funded in a separate DoD
125 Geophysical Quarterly, Volume B, No, 1 & 2, Winter 1990, pg. 2.
126 Ibid.
127 Geophysical Quarterly, Volume 10, No, 1 & 2, Winter 1992, pg. 1.
128 "Porkpie in the Sky", Anchorage Daily News, We Alaskans , December 15,1991, pages 9-14.
129 PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195; "Presentations from the HAARP Workshop on
Ionospheric Heating Diagnostics, 30 April - 2 May 1991, Phillips Laboratory (AFSC), Hanscom AFB,
MA. 01731-5000"; Editor, Major Drew Fisher, October 22,1991,
130 Department of the Air force, Phillips Laboratory, John Heckscher, HAARP Program Manager,
Letter to Alaska State Representative Jeannette James, November 12, 1993.
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program, as part of an upgrade at the Poker Flat rocket range, in Alaska." At the same
time it turned out that 30% of the computer time on the Supercomputer was for
Department of Defense (DoD) purposes.
So why the misinformation? What could be gained by deception, and how
much other material was being hidden behind the programs of the University of
Alaska? The reports go on to describe the additional need for "rocket-borne
instrumentation", discussion of which was also evaded in the responses by Heckscher
to Alaskans inquiring about this project. A review of just one year's grants to the
University of Alaska shows dozens of projects not "directly or formally" tied to
HAARP, but forming complements of research which will undoubtedly further the
program objectives 131. It was found that the military's public relations program was
intended to minimize the significant factors regarding the technology, the
interactivity of other projects and the real control and direction of the project. The
records showed that HAARP was part of a global cooperative effort which included the
USSR, Canada, Japan, Greenland, Norway, Finland, New Zealand and others132. NO
HAARPer's questioned how much of what information was being shared with the
countries uninvolved in the project, considering that all could be adversely affected
by HAARP.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is beginning to build a reputation as a
leader in geophysical research and planetary system modeling. The Geophysical
Institute will continue to attract researchers, but their biggest source of money is
from federal governmental agencies tied to the military. The HAARP project is
wholly controlled by the military, with the same warning signs around the facility as
at other military installations throughout the country. The HAARP facility is a
military facility. It seems the University is increasingly being "sidelined" on the
project.
At this time, HAARP is "A congressionally initiated effort, HAARP is being
managed cooperatively by the Air Force and Navy."133 HAARP is not a university
research project; it is a "proof-of-concept" project for the military. A "proof-ofconcept" project is one where advanced research experiments are designed to test, on
generally a smaller scale, specific applications of research. These tests allow
experimenters to extrapolate results which can then be used to engineer full size
technology implementing systems. In other words, this is the step just before full
weapon systems development.
The military carefully hid the interaction of the patents originally assigned
to APTI and used in conceptualizing HAARP. These twelve patents are described in
another chapter of this book, and show how the HAARP system will actually be used
as a weapon. The risks associated with the system are also discussed. The most
revealing document was one the government has kept in a very tight box - PL/GP
Technical Memorandum No. 195. This document which explains the military
131 University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical institute Summary of 1993/94 grants.
132 PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195; "Presentations from the HAARP Workshop on
Ionospheric Heating Diagnostics, 30 April - 2 May 1991, Phillips Laboratory (AFSC), Hanscom AFB,
MA. 01731-5000"; Editor, Major Drew Fisher; October 22,1991.
133 HAARP Fact Sheet, Office of Naval Research, Phillips Laboratory, November 4, 1993.
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applications of the project was supposed to be sanitized before public release. This
writer was fortunate in finding this document which was misplaced in a library; as
shown in another chapter. This document most effectively dismantles the public
relations disinformation put forward by the military.
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Chapter Thirteen
STAR WARS - 'COMPANY' CONTROL
Companies involved in the HAARP project are both interesting and
mysterious. The evolution of the HAARP contract is a story within this story.
Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) created a subsidiary called ARCO
Power Technologies Incorporated (APTI) which was based in Washington, D.C. The
company had reported annual sates of $5 million and had 25 employees as late as
1992.134 ARCO, the parent company, is the second largest private employer in
Alaska, primarily involved in the North Slope oil fields where it controls trillions of
cubic feet of natural gas and billions of barrels of oil. The natural gas on the North
Slope has been reinjected into the earth rather than "flared" off or produced for use as
it is in most other parts of the world. The gas has been reinjected in order to maintain
oil field pressure for enhanced production while pumping up to two million barrels of
crude oil a day out of the ground. No market for this natural gas currently exists,
although a $20 billion pipeline remains on the drawing boards. Finding a market for
the gas is in the interests of ARCO. The site where the HAARP project has been built
is close to an already granted right-of-way for a future TransAlaska Gas Pipeline. All
of the significant regulatory hurdles have been passed for constructing the gas line
should markets be found.
HAARP at its present stage does not represent a high energy consumer in
terms of input power. The first two phases of the project might not consume more
than one to ten megawatts of power. In the future, however if the project continues to
grow the way that project planners want it to or expands to involve other facilities,
power demands would sharply increase. ARCO originally hoped to find a large
consumer for their presently unmarketable natural gas. It was this market search
which brought Dr. Eastlund together with ARCO in the mid 1980's, and his inventive
genius gave birth to APTI.
Eventually ARCO was able to cluster twelve patents that would provide the
basis for new markets for their North Slope natural gas. The possibility of not even
having to transport the gas far from the source was an even more promising
possibility - a possibility which would put ARCO in the Star Wars business.
How does a small subsidiary company like APTI get a military contract for
such a project? The contract with APTI was more than five times the
organization's projected annual sales 135. We believe that the only way a
virtually unknown company, in the military contracting environment, could get a
contract like this is if they possessed proprietary information of use in the project
(i.e., the twelve APTI patents). This fact was recently confirmed by Dr. Eastlund who
was interviewed by Jeane Manning. He said APTI was formed a year after he made his
discovery while under contract to ARCO to find a use for their gas. The company was
formed to develop his patent by encouraging the military to test and eventually build
134 America's Corporate Families. 1993, Volume I, page 156.
135 Ibid.
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the system. The military has continued to deny the connection between Eastlund,
APTI and HAARP throughout the project. However, the three Eastlund patents were all
assigned to APTI. 136 The other nine patents, according to the Patent Office
records,
were also assigned to APTI by their inventors. This begins to unravel the
disinformation spin of the HAARP planners. APTI won the contract to build HAARP,
while bidding against an experienced government contractor with a strong success
record - Raytheon. Raytheon was number 52 on the Fortune 500 list for 1993 and is
one of the biggest defense contractors in the world. In the bid rating process with the
military the only thing that APTI had going for it was a set of twelve compelling
patents.
APTI's twelve patents are discussed in another chapter. These patents were
used in the HAARP project and some of their inventors were listed as "key
personnel" in the HAARP contract with APTI. Also, according to the contract if
APTI switched any of the key personnel they could lose the entire project.
After the contract was awarded, APTI was sold to E-Systems of Dallas,
Texas. The June 10, 1994 sale was transacted under undisclosed terms, APTI had
shown no net income since it opened in the late 1980's, which made the sale
particularly interesting. 137 It was reported that APTI was involved in research
financed by government grants. E-Systems changed the name of the company to
Advanced Power Technologies Incorporated, and assumed control of the patents and
the HAARP project. 138 E-Systems reported annual sales of $1,9 billion a year, had
18,662 employees 139 (1992) and is one of the largest intelligence contractors in the
United States. So why would E-Systems buy a company with no net
income and no major assets except for the twelve patents and an
unfunded second phase of a construction contract? The only real value
was the contract, and the technology in the package of patents.
E-Systems was the subject of a lengthy article in the Washington Post by
staff writer John Mintz. He disclosed that E-Systems' technologies were "part of the
central nervous system for the nation's intelligence community." $1.8 billion of
their $2.1 billion in sales was for classified projects. A large part of the projects
came from the National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
and other intelligence organizations. Many of the company employees are former
personnel from the NSA, CIA and military retirees. People with highly technical
backgrounds and a history of working in government intelligence circles are hired by
the company almost automatically, according to the Washington Post article. Retired
Navy Admiral William Raborn, CIA director under Lyndon B. Johnson, for years
served on the board of directors, 140
E-Systems was one of the featured stories in a CBS, 60 Minutes segment was
aired February 26, 1995, The report echoed the assertions which were made in the
136 United States Patent Numbers 4686605; 4712155; 5038664.
137 "E-Systems Buys ARCO Power Technologies",The New York Times, June 30, 1994.
138 Ibid.
139 America's Corporate Families. 1993, Volume I, page 552.
140 The Secret's Out; Covert E-Systems Inc. Covets Commercial Sales", by John
Mintz, Washington Post, October 24,1994, pg, A1, A10.
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Washington Post article. The company was described as an organization operating in
the "black world" - an area so secret that employees are not permitted by law to
discuss anything about their work except with those individuals who have an official
"need to know" classification. Of the company's annual sales, 85 percent was for
classified work, with an estimated $800 million involved in projects so sensitive
that the government denies that the projects even exist. The story went on to paint a
picture of an organization which thrives on contracts issued by the CIA, NSA and
military intelligence organizations.141
In the CBS, 60 Minutes segment, the secret relationship with the United
States government was illustrated by describing one of E-Systems more public law
suits. In the course of the law suit, a court order was issued which forbad the disclosure
of E-Systems' classified relationship to the United States government. The most
unusual part of the order was that none of the parties to the suit could even disclose
that the order existed or that the government had even sought such an order. Even
more revealing about this shadowy organization was that no one was allowed to have
a copy of the document. They could only view it for a few moments in the United
States Attorney's office. They were not allowed to take notes or in any way record
their comments about the order, and they were forbidden from even talking about the
existence of the document, under threat of incarceration. The order was so secret that
even the judge could not have a copy of it, and could only view it upon special
request. The secrecy of the document was appealed all the way to the United States
Supreme Court where a ruling was issued which allowed the parties to talk about the
order. Even now, nobody can get a copy of the document itself. 142
According to the E-Systems 1994 annual report to stockholders, their
business mission is clear. "Our core business activities continue to be focused on
intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance." In the report they describe a number
of their most promising prospects for increases in profits. They also describe the
purchase of APTI from ARCO, although they do not indicate the amount paid. 143
The technologies that E-Systems developed are awesome. They include
systems for law enforcement which can intercept faxed messages, telephone calls,
modem transfers, and video transmissions on a single system in eavesdropping by
the government. Their Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies (satellite
based) can locate objects anywhere in the world within one foot of the object's actual
location. The refitting of aircraft for border monitoring and defense purposes are also
disclosed in the report. The company's operations are mostly hidden, and the annual
reports seem to be one of the few sources for information on the organization. 144
As this book was in its final days of writing, another twist to the corporate
tangle occurred. Raytheon Corporation bought out E-Systems for $2.3 billion. 145
141 "E-Systems", 60 Minutes, CBS News, N.Y, N.Y,, February 26,1995.
142 Ibid.
143 "E-Systems, Inc. Nineteen ninety-four Annual Report to Stockholders"; March 10,1995.
144 Ibid.
145 "Raytheon to Acquire E-Systems for $64 a Share, or $2.3 Billion; Offer is 41% Premium Over
Friday's Close; Rival Bid is Unlikely" by Steven Lipin and Jeff Cote, The Wall Street Journal, April
3, 1995, pges A1, A3 and A16.
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The entire E-Systems' board of directors were kept as advisors for five years with full
pay. The article went on to describe the company's main activities as super secret
projects operated out of the Pentagon. Raytheon's profits mostly came from their
government contracts, according to the same article.
So who is Raytheon, and why would they acquire E-Systems? They are a $10
billion a year organization, ranked number 52 among the Fortune 500 with more than
60,000 employees. They were also one of the original bidders on the HAARP project,
and now they have the patents and the Phase-Two contract on the project. Buying ESystems will give Raytheon a significant increase in annual sales and cut
competition in an environment of shrinking defense budgets. The combination of
these two organizations' resources will create one of the most powerful intelligence
contractors in the world. The systems that these companies can now develop, as a
single organization, will make those old Jules Verne stories look like Mother Goose.
Those little grains of information on E-Systems appearing in their annual reports
will cease to exist, as their existence is buried in the depths of their new owner's
corporate identity.
APT1, when it was owned by ARCO, was relatively easy to keep track of
because it was small. The patent records and the data surrounding ownership could be
traced. Its purchase by E-Systems raised eyebrows and began to mask the assets
behind a clouded corporate structure. With the takeover, it seemed that the HAARP
project would go into the black world of hidden programs. HAARP was now at the
bottom of the sea of the corporate structure of one of the largest private companies in
the world.
Besides their newly acquired HAARP contract, E-Systems had developed a
number of other technologies. They have developed clustered computer networks
called EMASS systems which can store five trillion pages of text - a file pile that
would reach a hundred and fifty miles high - from the surface of the Earth right into the
ionosphere. Their computer can sort data at lightning speed, and has applications in
the oil industry for storing and sorting seismic information. 146 They also control
once secret remote sensing equipment capable of mapping the Earth's underground
formations. 147 These technologies, coupled with what APT1 brought together in
their patents, formed an incredible technology package for one of the most profound
weapon systems yet conceived. Could the marriage of technologies in these
companies create the possibility of those types of uses contemplated in intelligence
circles as necessary for the ultimate control of mankind through bloodless warfare and
manipulation of mental functioning? E-Systems had amassed huge capabilities for the
most secret organizations in the country, and had gained control of the HAARP
technologies.
Now that it controls E-Systems and APT1 assets, Raytheon can develop even
the most bizarre ideas of the military and intelligence communities. The integration
of the patents, resources and capabilities into this huge organization can now produce
even the most machiavellian dreams of "national security" thinkers...
146 "The Secret's Out: Covert E-Systems inc. Covets Commercial Sales", by John
Mintz,Washington Post, October 24,1994, pg. A1, A10.
147 Ibid.
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Chapter Fourteen
"THE PROJECT'S NOT CLASSIFIED."
The military representatives maintain that HAARP is not classified and that
they are making all information available to the public. In April 1995, a document,
PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195, came into the hands of this researcher, even
though it was not supposed to be released to the public. 148 The document was
developed from presentation notes and papers delivered at Hanscom Air Force Base
between April 30, and May 1, 1991, and was 613 pages long. The meeting developed
HAARP specifications, and provided insights into the hopes of project planners.
The military limited distribution of PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195.
On page ii of the document, the "Preface" appears with notations:
"The PL/GP Technical Memorandum Series is intended to make results of PL
(Phillips Laboratory) in-house scientific efforts rapidly available to specific groups
and individuals known to have an immediate interest in the results obtained...A
Technical Memorandum may not be referenced in the open literature; however, results
presented therein may be referenced as 'private communication' with the written
consent of the originating office."
This revealing paragraph explained how the government could say, in slick
word games, that there was no record or that there was no published document
available when one was requested. They considered the document a "private
communication" of the sort that would not be readily available under a freedom of
information request, In the "Foreword" (page iii), the intent to hide this important
document became more clear,
"The report is intended for the use of the workshop attendees, PL (Phillips
Laboratory), and ONR (Office of Naval Research)...The contents of the report is not
available to the general public. Consequently, the appearance of any material herein
does not constitute publication."
How do you print a pile of documents 613 pages thick, and say it "does not
constitute publication"? "Non-published" material does not exist, so it will not be
produced unlike a classified document which the government at least has to
acknowledge is not available for release. This document's very existence could be
denied and it would never be produced through normal channels. It becomes obvious,
upon reading the document, why they did not want it out to the public. This particular
document sort of kicked a few holes in the song and dance given by the government
in the public meetings by program planners. We know there are additional Technical
Memoranda on the project. Perhaps these other documents will come to light.
148 PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195; "Presentations from the HAARP Workshop on
Ionospheric Heating Diagnostics, 30 April - 2 May 1991, Phillips Laboratory (AFSC), Hanscom AFB,
MA. 01731-5000"; Editor, Major Drew Fisher; October 22,1991.
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But what did the Technical Memorandum describe? First, a system of
ionospheric heaters, as these radio transmitters are described by the government, was
suspected by Begich and Manning to be networked in a web of cooperation which
would allow for these devices to be used together. If these ionospheric heaters could
be used in resonance (harmony) with each other, a significantly larger effect could be
realized through their collective energies being focused at a point far above the Earth.
This particular memorandum revealed that this was exactly what the military had
intended. It was also obvious that the military had been working with the systems in
the USSR as well as the West in recent years. We discovered mat the maps issued by
the HAARP program managers neglected to list a number of transmitter sites around
the world, including systems in Greenland, the South Pacific, Japan, and
Europe (Eiscat) among others. The Technical Memorandum showed that this
program would run a number of experiments together with these other transmitters
and diagnostic tools.
The documents specified the need for powerful computers149 and the need
for rocket launching facilities 150. Upgrades to the Poker Flat Rocket Range were
discussed at some length, and these upgrades were mostly made under separate
funding. The military continued, even after this conference, to insist that the supercomputing and launching facilities built near Fairbanks were really separate from
HAARP but might be somehow, as kind of an afterthought, useful. These facilities
were not just handy extras; they were required to make the project a complete program
and were specified from the beginning. This is clear in the Technical Memorandum,
but the military denied it.
A crucial point was diagramed in the documents151 - three radio
frequency transmitters were spaced several hundred kilometers apart
with their energy focused on the same point in the ionosphere. This
would allow a significant increase in power density, well over what
was possible with just a single transmitter. The global shield
concept envisioned by Eastlund began to make a lot more sense in
light of these systems being used together. If these transmitters
could be tuned in resonance (harmony) with each other, a very large
effect could be obtained. If those positioned around the northern
latitudes were turned on and tuned just so, they would energize a
very large portion of the ionosphere, creating many of the effects
described in the patents and sought by the military.
The use of the system for generating ELF signals was also well
illustratedl52. It was obvious that these ELF signals would be sent through the
atmosphere and the lithosphere (upper portion of the earth itself) in order to
communicate with sub-marines. These signals would pass through every living thing
in the radiated areas which covered most of Alaska, Western Canada and possibly the
149 PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195; "Presentations from the HAARP Workshop on
Ionospheric Heating Diagnostics, 30 April - 2 May 1991, Phillips Laboratory (AFSC), Hanscom AFB,
MA. 01731-5000"; Editor, Major Drew Fisher, October 22,1991, page 55.
150 Ibid., pages 145-152.
151 Ibid., page 144.
152 Ibid., pages 256-261,
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rest of the world, once a full shield of connected facilities is developed. These types
of radiations and their effects on living organisms, including humans, are discussed
in another section of this book. It is these specific ELF radiations which potentially
have the most devastating effects on people and animals.
Another interesting section of the report153 discusses the use of satellites
controlled by the "Blackbeard Team" of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
"Blackbeard is a satellite RF experiment designed to study distortion and discrimination of transionospheric VLF signals originating from the earth." Blackbeard is
part of the Alexis satellite. This was another very expensive project which was funded
separately from HAARP. It should also be remembered that Los Alamos is the heart of
some of the most secret defense systems in the world, including "nonlethal" RF
radiation weapons which are explored in another chapter of this book.
The work of the Blackbeard Team was described, in part, in an article
published in 1994.154 The article described "gamma ray flashes" emanating from
some thunderstorms. These flashes were unusual in that they went up toward the
ionosphere as opposed to down to the earth like most bolts of lightning. "A satellite
launched last year to test ways to monitor nuclear blasts detected microsecond radio
flashes, apparently linked to thunderstorms, that are 10,000 times more intense than
the radio crackling such storms normally generate", was how one of the new
discoveries was described in the article. These flashes can not be explained in terms
of known science. They are extremely short in duration, which is why they were not
detected years ago. The gamma rays themselves are found at over 30 - to 100
kilometers above the cloud tops. This new knowledge was later confirmed by further
investigations conducted by the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska
Fairbanks.
This latest discovery was unexpected, and demonstrates the general lack of
knowledge about our upper atmosphere. It is more reason to worry about additional
tampering planned by HAARP managers.
The entire unpublished report, PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195, lays
open the project linkages for the directions of the HAARP program. Government
research going back many years contributed to the perceived need for a more versatile
controllable heater. Dr. Bernard Eastlund had the missing link through his
patents which describe a system capable of packing unheard of power densities into
the ionosphere, levels which could pierce the natural shield which protects us all from
being bombarded by death delivering cosmic radiations. The possibilities presented
in the other APTI controlled patents took Eastlund's basic concept forward toward
applications predicted as early as the 1950's. It is doubtful that Eastlund understood
the reach his device would have, or the state of the technologies which he helped to
enhance with his invention. To the military, Dr. Eastlund was just an outsider
unknown to military planners, and a person who was too open about his science.
They took what they needed, through their research surrogates at APTI and within the
University research centers, and moved forward without them.
153 Ibid, pages 352-355,
154 "Atmospheric Scientists Puzzle Over High-Altitude Flashes", Science, Vol 264, May 27, 1994,
pages 1250-1251.
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Chapter Fifteen
THE TWELVE PATENTS OF APTI
TECHNICALLY TESLA
APTI held twelve patents, all of which were linked to Star Wars defense
systems. APTI was the main contractor on the first phase of the HAARP project.
These patents represented technologies which were inconsistent with the normal
activities of ARCO, the parent organization of APTI. In ARCO's 1994 annual
report, no mention of APTI OT the HAARP contract was found. Apparently ARCO
was not in the kind of technology and military construction contracting business
suggested by this technology. APTI was an anomalous subsidiary of ARCO, with
ARCO having no real expertise, outside of APTI, for developing these kinds of
patents.
This writer believes that ARCO did not want to be involved in the defense
industry development of these patents. After all, they were just looking for a
market for natural gas. Gas on the North Slope of Alaska was the issue for ARCO.
The cost of a pipeline and related facilities needed to move the gas to southern
Alaska was estimated at more than $20 billion, pricing the gas out of the market.
So APTI acquired the twelve patents and a potentially lucrative market.
The patents originally held by APTI are described below.
United States Patent Number 4,686,605
Issued: August 11, 1987
Invented by: Bernard J. Eastlund
Titled; "Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's
Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere".
This patent was filed on January 10, 1985. On April 11, 1986, the Office of
Naval Research Code 308 in Arlington, Virginia sealed the patent application under a
"Secrecy Order" which forbade further work or any disclosure of information on the
patent. This, no doubt, concerned Dr. Eastlund and APTI. 155 The order was a standard
form letter stating provisions of the National Security Act that allowed the Defense
Department to seal the information. The penalties for disobeying it were spelled
out in the document, and included fines and long prison terms.
Patent examiner Salvatore Cangialosi of the U.S. Patent Office rejected the
application on November 28, 1986. According to the Summary of Action, "Claims
1-38 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the invention as disclosed is
inoperative and therefore lacks utility."
On December 9, 1986 Dr. Eastlund and his attorney met with the patent
examiner to discuss the rationale behind the decision to reject it. On January 14,
1987, an amendment was filed which reduced the number of claims and provided
155 United States Patent Office Master File 06/690,333 (SC/Serial Number) on Patent No. 4,686,605.
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documentation to prove that the invention would work. The file notes say it was
reviewed again in early February 1987. In late March, the Secrecy Order was lifted.
The Eastlund patent was different than technologies of ionospheric heaters
already operating around the world. The first significant difference was the way the RF
radiation was concentrated. The energy was focused to a point in the ionosphere, with
a wide base of the energy at the transmitter site. The other antenna designs operating
around the world radiated RF in the opposite way, so that it was like a cone with the
point at the transmitter and the wide end in the ionosphere. In other words, the
Eastlund invention concentrated the power in the ionosphere, while the others
spread
it out over an increasingly larger area as the energy moved further away from the
transmitter. This difference allowed a significant concentration of energy into the
ionosphere. The Eastlund device would allow a concentration of one watt per
cubic centimeter, compared to others only able to deliver about one
millionth of one watt.
This was a huge difference, which was "sufficient to cause movement of a
plasma region along said diverging magnetic field lines to an altitude higher than the
altitude at which said excitation was initiated." 156 What this means is that it would
lift the ionosphere and alter its character in the ways necessary to create the effects
described in the patent.
Eastlund further explained the effect of cyclotron resonance in building the
power density over a large area of the ionosphere. The military would use this
knowledge later in describing the "painting" of the ionosphere, which is why they
wanted a system that would scan a fairly large area. They could, with this new
technology, focus the energy and cover a large area for their effects.
Three publications cited in the patent formed the basis for the research into
the technology. It was these references which sparked the original investigation
which led to this book. The articles related to the work of Nikola Tesla in the early
1900's. The articles from the New York Times, December 8, 1915 and September 22,
1940, were quoted earlier in this book.
What would this technology be worth to ARCO? The profits they could
generate by transmitting power from the point of production to the point of
consumption without wires were enormous. Through normal powerline transmission
this was not possible because of power losses over long distances. What wireless
transfers of electrical energy could provide, with the right complement of equipment,
could be astounding. Natural gas could be converted to transferable energy and
literally beamed to wherever it needed to go. Between May, 1994, and April, 1995,
no clear indications of this application for HAARP were found until the other patents
listed in this section and the "key personnel" list for APTI was found and connected.
In the articles referenced by Eastlund in his patent, was another patent of Tesla's
(United States Patent 1,119,732). This patent led to several others which were related
(787,412 and 685,956, among others). Some of these new APTI patents were exactly
what was suspected - a wireless power transmission system.
156 Amendment January 1987 to the original Patent Application of Bernard Eastlund for the
subseauentlv issued Patent Number 4,686,605.
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Patent number 4,686,605, issued August 11, 1987 to Bernard J, Eastlund
and assigned to APTI, is one of three related patents by the same inventor cited in this
chapter. These patents revisit and go beyond the technical applications envisioned
by Tesla. We quote from Eastlund's patent:
"In the past several years, substantial effort has been made to understand
and explain the phenomena involved in belts of trapped electrons and ions, and to
explore the possible ways to control and use these phenomena for beneficial purposes.
For example, in the late 1950's and early 1960's both the United States and the U.S.S.R.
detonated a series of nuclear devices of various yields to generate large numbers of
charged particles at various altitudes, e.g. 200 kilometers or greater."
"This can cause confusion of or interference with or even complete
disruption of guidance systems employed by even the most sophisticated of airplanes
and missiles. The ability to employ and transmit over very wide areas of the Earth a
plurality of electromagnetic waves of varying frequencies and to change same at will
in a random manner, provides a unique ability to interfere with all modes of
communication, land, sea, and/or air, at the same time. Because of the unique
juxtaposition of a usable fuel source at the point where desirable field lines intersect
the Earth's surface, such wide ranging and complete communication interference can
be achieved in a reasonably short period of time...Thus, this invention provides the
ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth's atmosphere at strategic
locations and to maintain the power injection level, particularly if random pulsing is
employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore
accomplished by the prior art, particularly by detonation of nuclear devices of
various yields at various altitudes...Further, by knowing the frequencies of various
electromagnetic beams employed in the practice of this invention it is possible not only
to interfere with third party communications but to take advantage of one or more such
beams to carry out a communications network even though the rest of the world's
communications are disrupted. Put another way, what is used to disrupt another's
communications can be employed by one knowledgeable of this invention as a
communication network at the same time. In addition, once one's own communication
network is established, the far reaching extent of the effects of this invention could be
employed to pick up communication signals of others for intelligence purposes."
"This invention has a phenomenal variety of possible ramifications and
potential future developments. As alluded to earlier, missile or aircraft destruction,
deflection, or confusion could result, particularly when relativistic particles are
employed. Also, large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high
altitude so that missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with
resultant destruction or deflection of same. Weather modification is possible by, for
example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes
of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device. Also as alluded to
earlier, molecular modifications of the atmosphere can take place so that positive
environmental effects can be achieved. Besides actually changing the molecular
composition of an atmospheric region, a particular molecule or molecules can be
chosen for increased presence. For example, ozone, nitrogen, etc., concentrations in
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the atmosphere could be artificially increased. Similarly, environmental enhancement
could be achieved by causing the breakup of various chemical entities such as carbon
dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, and the like."
While the HAARP device being constructed in Alaska at present may not be
large enough to create all of these effects, it could test the ideas Dr. Eastlund
expressed. The military denies that they are using any of the Eastlund ideas; however,
careful review of the materials leads to the conclusion that the military is misleading
the public. Moreover, Dr. Eastlund in a National Public Radio broadcast in 1988
reported that the military had tested some of the ideas presented in the patents.
United States Patent Number 5,038,664
Issued: August 13, 1991
Invented by: Bernard I. Eastlund
Titled: "Method for Producing a Shell of Relativistic
Altitude above the Earth's Surface".
Particles at an
In outlining the background of this invention in the patent, Dr. Eastlund
describes the development of particle beam weapons for destroying incoming hostile
missiles. The problem with particle beams is that they require perfect targeting so
that the object could be hit and destroyed. The new invention eliminated the need for
such precision, in that it created a literal "shell" of particles which would drift around
the planet, destroying electrical components of objects passing through the "shell".
According to the patent, "The shell so formed may be used as an antimissile shield.
The high-energy, relativistic particles in the shell will collide with any missile
passing therethrough to give up energy which, in turn, will damage or destroy the
missile."
The power level described in the patent is extremely high, and the effects on
the environment, and most particularly on the weather are unknown. What is known
is that this type of power manipulation would significantly destabilize natural
ionospheric systems.
Another important aspect of this invention is that it also requires large
supplies of energy, and would have to be ctose to where the magnetic lines of force
around the planet intersect the earth, The North Slope of Alaska is described as
providing the ideal location.
United States Patent Number 4,712,155
Issued: December 8, 1987
Invented by: Bernard J. Eastlund and Simon Ramo.
Titled: "Method and Apparatus for Creating an Artificial Electron
Cyclotron Heating Region of Plasma".
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The same previously cited New York Times articles about Teste's work were
referred to in this patent, with the same emphasis on the North Slope of Alaska being
the ideal place. Alaska has the right amount of natural gas and is situated in the right
place relative to the natural magnetic lines of force. This invention could be used in
communication systems, and perhaps for energy transfers through the ionosphere, to
be tapped off at distant points.
The three Eastlund patents represent the advances on which HAARP
planners have hung their hats in putting forward the project.
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United States Patent Number 5,068,669
Issued: November 26, 1991
Invented by: PeteT Koert and James T. Cha.
Titled; "Power Beaming System".
Peter Koert was listed as one of the key people on the HAARP project, in the
government contract with APTI.157 Power beaming was a technology that Nikola
Tesla had developed through his patent series referenced in Eastlund's work. The idea
that Peter Koert would become a key person to the HAARP program made a good deal
of sense, considering his expertise in power beaming technologies.
This "Star Wars" technology developed by ARCO Power Technologies,
Incorporated was used in a microwave-powered aircraft. The aircraft was reported to be
able to stay aloft for up to 10,000 hours at 80,000 foot altitudes in a single mission.
This craft was envisioned as a surveillance platform. The craft had no need for
refueling because the energy was beamed to it and then converted to electrical energy
for use by the aircraft. Flight tests were undertaken at Tyendinga Airport near
Kingston, Ontario, Canada in the early 1990's.l58 This test by APT1 most likely
involved this patent and patent number 5,218,374 which is described in this chapter.
According to the patent, "The present invention relates in general to the
transfer of energy by means of electromagnetic waves to power a remote device. More
specifically, the present invention relates to a system for 'power beaming' energy
from a source at high frequencies and rectifying such energy to provide a source of DC
energy to a remote device." The patent went on to describe the attempts over the years
to create a device which could be used and was practical. The background section
states, "...the concept of powering a satellite or free flying aircraft by power beaming
has received a great deaf of attention. The advantages of such a system are readily
apparent, for example, an aircraft could be maintained on station indefinitely to act as
a low cost communications or reconnaissance platform."
The idea is to convert microwaves to DC power, which can be done very
efficiently and cost effectively with the right kind of transmission system capable of
157 Office of Naval Research, Contract Number N00014-92-C-0210, ARCO Power Technologies
Incorporated as Contractors, September 16,1992 with Amendments through October 19,1993.
158 Aviation Week, Volume 135, No, 22.
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focusing the power into a narrow beam. The HAARP system provides a very effective
means of transferring such power at maximum efficiency. Within the patent, the use
of the term "gyrotron" appears. It refers to cyclotron resonance, a concept and
primary part of the Eastlund patents and an attribute of the HAARP transmitter,
according to the government records.
This technology has already been tested by APTI.
United States Patent Number 5,218,374
Issued: June 8, 1993
Invented by. Peter Koert and James T. Cha.
Titled: "Power Beaming System with
Elements having Resonating Cavities".
Printed
Circuit Radiating
Again, Peter Koert was listed as one of the key people assigned to the
HAARP project by APTI, according to the government contract. 159 Also important
to note in this patent and the previous one, is the mention of NASA report No.
CR179558, March 11, 1987 by William C. Brown of Raytheon Company. Raytheon
did the basic work leading to this patent. William C. Brown is now at the University
of Alaska Fairbanks where he is continuing the development of these technologies,
His current project at UAF is called SABER which is an acronym for "SemiAutonomous Beam Rider". The concept is to beam radio-frequency energy to a
helicopter in order to suspend it in the air without an on-board fuel supply. The
project "is intended to promote public interest and understanding concerning
microwave power transmission." 160
The system to be used by Brown in the wireless transmission of energy to
power the craft will be from a 2,45 GHz beam. This will complete a series of tests
which he started in 1965. The transmission, and conversion, of this energy is now
possible via the APTI patents and HAARP.
Raytheon, Brown's old employer and the new owner of the APTI patents,
was one of three bidders on the HAARP project. Eventually, through a series of
corporate buyouts, Raytheon would come to own all of the patents described in this
chapter as well as the contract for the second phase of HAARP construction.
In the patent it was made clear that this was "a continuation-in-part" of the
previous patent by Koert and Cha. This patent describes a system for converting
radiofrequency (RF) radiation into DC power using a "cross dipole antenna" which is
to be used to receive the RF energy before conversion to DC. This patent carries the
power-beaming ideas further, to the point where they can be used. Previously such
systems were impractical because of technical limitations.
159 Office of Naval Research, Contract Number N00014-92-C-0210, ARCO Power Technologies
Incorporated as Contractors, September 16,1992 with Amendments through October 19,1993.
160 Internet copy obtained from http://asgp.uafsoe.alaska.edu/saber.html.
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United States Patent Number 5,293,176
Issued: March 8, 1994
Invented by: Paul G. Elliot.
Titled: "Folded Cross Grid Dipole Antenna Element".
Although it is unknown whether this particular patent was used in the
HAARP program, what is known is that the inventor, Paul Elliot, was part of the team
identified in the government documents. He obviously brought to the project a high
level of knowledge of antenna arrays and related technology. It is not known whether
this antenna was intended to be used for sending energy, receiving power or both.
This technology is useful in power-beaming systems as well as the other applications
described in other patents in this chapter.
We speculate that this antenna provided a more efficient system of energy
transfer for use in the Eastlund applications. It is possible that, with the antenna gain
realized by this design, a larger amount of power could be sent up to the ionosphere.
This might be possible from a much smaller antenna field than originally
contemplated by Eastlund.
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United States Patent Number 5,202,689
Issued: April 13, 1993
Invented by: Robert W. Bussard and Thomas H. Wallace.
Titled: "Lightweight Focusing Reflector For Space".
The reflector is intended to complement power-beaming systems previously
described in this chapter. According to the patent, "Large reflectors have many
important applications in space. Reflectors can be used, for example, to reflect
sunlight onto a solar collector or redirect a microwave power beam." The system for
the power-beaming described in this patent was designed for sending 10 gigawatts of
power.
The transmitting, reflecting and receiving system is massive, and the cost
of building and using such a system is immense. However, according to the patent,
"The instant invention can be used to transmit power less expensively than
the use of microwaves within the Earth's atmosphere. It is expected that as the cost of
deploying equipment in space decreases, the cost of using the instant invention to
transmit power will become lower than the cost of transmitting power using
conventional transmission lines. A cost analysis has been performed using cost
projections for the 2000 to 2010 time frame. This cost analysis suggests that a
principle limiting factor is efficiency and the cost of the radio frequency sources, not
the cost of fabricating and launching the reflector."
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The HAARP radiofrequency transmitter, using a focused beam, largely
addresses the transmitter-limiting factors described in the patent.
The patent goes on to describe the idea of generating energy in locations
where it is cheap, and beaming it to areas where energy costs are high. The economic
viability is shown, although the size of the project is quite targe. The construction of
the TransAlaska natural gas pipeline has been estimated at over $20 billion dollars,
without considering the costs of special ships, off loading facilities and then power
generating plants in addition to operating costs. To produce energy at the source and
redirect the capital costs of alternate systems to power beaming systems would likely
be economically feasible. However, there would be a significant risk to anything
flying in the path of the ten-gigawatt beam or if the reflector was somehow turned,
reflecting the energy into the wrong receiving location and into perhaps a populated
area. This risk is not adequately dealt with in the patent.
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United States Patent Number 5,041,834
Issued: August 20, 1991
Invented by: Peter Koert.
Titled: "Artificial Ionospheric Mirror Composed of a Plasma Layer
Which can be Tilted".
The expertise that Peter Koert brought to the HAARP project is most evident
in this application. This application was scheduled to be tested in September, 1995.
This test will be done using both HAARP and HIPAS transmitters. The Artificial
Ionospheric Mirror, or AIM as it is referred to in the government records, will be very
useful to the military. This patent also refers to two of the Eastlund patents 161.
This invention creates an Artificial Ionospheric Mirror (AIM) by creating a
plasma layer in the ionosphere which will allow a transmitting station to bounce
radiofrequency energy off of the AIM for a variety of uses. This invention provides
"over-the-horizon" radar and communication capabilities to the military, over great
distances. It will allow the military to send communications, and locate incoming
objects, with significantly improved control and efficiency. In early HAARP
planning, this was one of the areas considered very important to the program and was
referred to with great enthusiasm by the military.
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United States Patent Number 4,999,637
Issued: March 12, 1991
Invented by: Ronald M. Bass.
Titled: "Creation of Artificial Ionization Clouds Above the Earth".
161 Eastlund Patent Numbers 4,686,605 and 4,712,155.
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This invention also drew from the Eastlund patents162 which were cited in
the issued patent document. This is similar to the previous invention, but it uses two
antenna systems which send energy to the same point, thus creating, by a complex
set of ionospheric interactions, a "plasma cloud". The cloud can also be made with
one antenna. The cloud is created with minimum energy, and allows a much improved
"over-the-horizon" (OTH) radar system in terms of detection of both far out and
close
in objects.
An interesting part of the OTH radar system that HAARP, in part, represents
is that the HAARP transmitter is sitting on the incomplete construction site of the
original OTH radar system funded by the United States Congress. The site was being
demobilized because the military suggested that with the Cold War ending it was no
longer needed.
It appears that the reason that the old OTH system was abandoned was
because it was obsolete - based on this new technology. The OTH radar project never
ended at this location; it just changed to a much more versatile multi-use tool, the
HAARP transmitter. Another consideration was that to build a HAARP radiofrequency
transmitting system was much quicker and cost effective.
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United States Patent Number 4,954,709
Issued: September 4, 1990
Invented by: Arie Zigler, Yossef Elsen from Rishon Le Zion, Israel.
Titled: "High Resolution Directional Gamma Ray Detector".
This device was designed to work with some of the other patents. It is
intended to distinguish the "signature" (the unique characteristics of the object which
allow it to be identified at a distance) of incoming airborne objects to determine if
they are carrying nuclear devices, among other things. The device allows an operator
to see the direction of the incoming objects by screening out the directions which are
of no concern. In the words of the patent,
"The present invention relates to gamma ray detection. More specifically, the
present invention is related to light weight directional gamma ray detectors having a
high degree of angular resolution, high efficiency, and an ability to discriminate low
energy gamma rays."
The invention is-able to operate effectively in areas which have a "large
number of low energy background gamma rays." Gamma ray detection of this type is
required in order to operate the system in the patent described below. It is also of use
in other technologies described in this chapter. Gamma ray detection tells an operator
a great deal about an incoming object, and is particularly useful in identifying objects
carrying nuclear warheads.
162 Eastlund Patent Numbers 4,686,605 and 4,712,155.
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United States Patent Number 4,817,495
Issued: April 4, 1989
Invented by: Adam T. Drobot.
Titled: "Defense System for Discriminating
Space".
Between
Objects
in
This patent refers to Eastlund's earlier patent number 4,686,605 as well as
other documents about "Particle Beam Weapons" and "Space-Based Ballistic-Missile
Defense" systems more commonly refer-red to as Star Wars systems. This invention
is intended to work with gamma ray detectors and was described as;
"A defense system and a method for discriminating between armed reentry
vehicles and unarmed objects which are in close proximity of each other. The reentry
vehicles and the unarmed objects are bathed in a cloud of relativistic electrons with
the resulting signatures from heavy objects, i.e., reentry vehicles, being imaged
directly. Detectors sense the location and identity of the reentry vehicles and pass this
information onto a weapons platform for tracking and interception."
In reading this, we are tinked back to other patents described in this chapter,
and can see how these varied uses of Eastlund's original ideas will have far-reaching
effects on the way in which wars are fought.
The importance of this invention to the military is described in the patent;
"Presently, the expected scenario for any large-scale intercontinental
ballistic missile attack includes the deployment of a large number of decoys and
penetration aids in a 'threat cloud' around one or more armed, reentry vehicles in an
attempt to confuse any defense systems set up to counteract the armed missiles...Since
the total number of objects expected in a typical threat cloud may well exceed one
hundred thousand, any truly effective defense system must include a system which is
capable of 'interrogating' all of the objects in the threat cloud and quickly
discriminating between the deadly reentry vehicles and harmless decoys and
penetration aids."
Also in the patent emphasis is placed on the value of a ground-based system
as opposed to other Star Wars systems which rely heavily on earth-orbiting space
hardware. Space borne systems are not as easy to maintain, and more easily disabled
by adversaries. This invention reduces the computing needs of defense systems
significantly. Reducing the number of tracked objects to just those which are a real
threat allows for targeting resources and counter measures to be focused on them
specifically.
The ideal location for this system is also identified as the North Slope of
Alaska, the most likely path for over the pole nuclear missiles. It is also where the
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large gas reserves could be used to create the necessary radiofrequency radiation
transmitting system. The same magnetohydrodynamic generators mentioned by
Eastlund are mentioned, along with the same type of antenna arrays. The patent
describes the concept in the same general way that Eastlund did, but defines how the
defense components would interact with the system most efficiently.
Another application of this technology is described;
"While the present invention has been described for discriminating between
armed and unarmed vehicles in a threat cloud during an impending attack, it can also
be employed to 'interrogate' orbiting satellites to determine if any said satellites may
be carrying nuclear weapons for future launch. Again, a cloud of relativisiic electrons
would be created around the satellite of interest for interaction therewith to produce a
signature from that satellite which, when analyzed, would reveal the nature of the
materials contained in the satellite."
This invention is demonstrated, in prototype form, by the HAARP project.
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United States Patent Number 4,873,928
Issued: October 17, 1989
Invented by: Frank E. Lowther.
Titled: "Nuclear-Sized Explosions without Radiation".
This device was designed for "producing explosions from an explosive gas
mixture which has a shock yield comparable to a nuclear explosion, but one which
produces no radioactive fallout."
The patent described the background of the invention.
"Between 1945 and 1960, the United States exploded nuclear devices which
had a total yield equivalent to approximately 200 megatons (MT) of trinitrotoluene
(TNT). Tests conducted by other countries during this time brought the total yield of
nuclear explosions to approximately 400 MT. It was quickly recognized that such
testing could not continue since each nuclear explosion produced radioactivity that
seriously threatened the environment. To protect the environment from such
radioactive fallout, most of the world's nuclear powers signed the Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty in 1963 which prohibited nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, underwater,
and in space..."
"The necessary prohibition against above-ground testing of nuclear
explosives, however, has created situations where alternates to such explosions are
needed. For example, all of the sophisticated communication systems, defense systems,
weapons systems, etc. that have been designed and built for the military since 1963
have never been tested in their ultimate operating environments, i.e. under nuclear
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blast conditions...Radiation dosages and electromagnetic pulses which simulate
those from nuclear explosions have been produced in shielded laboratories but the
extreme shock energies which can be expected from nuclear explosions, e.g. 1 kiloton
(KT) or larger, have not been satisfactorily duplicated..."
So, APTI filled another technological void for military planners by
developing a way to test the effects of a nuclear sized shock wave's impact on the
electronics of defense systems. The invention side steps the treaties on nuclear
testing in the atmosphere which allow the military the opportunity to test their
hardware without violating these international agreements. As far as is known, this
particular invention is not part of the HAARP program but is the last of the APTI
patents.
The ideal location of this invention, like the others, was identified in the
patent as the North Slope of Alaska.
"Preferably, the combustible gas is one that is naturally available in large
quantities and is one that can easily and safely be transported to the test site. For
example, large quantities of natural gas, i.e. ,methane, are readily available in several
geographical areas. Especially attractive are the huge quantities of methane in the
North Slope area of Alaska, since there are remote areas nearby which are suitable as a
test site. The methane can be produced and safely transported to the test site by a
common pipeline. However, the test site does not have to be in close proximity to the
methane production area since the methane can be gathered and safely pipelined for
long distances as is now commonly done in supplying energy to areas remote from the
production area."
The idea of using the North Slope for nuclear sized weapons testing is not
new. It is a myth that the North Slope is some big wasteland suitable only for
creating craters with nuclear-size devices. This is home for about 8,000 Alaska
natives, and has been for thousands of years. This area also supports significant
animal life which the United States has decided to preserve by carefully regulating
development, but the balance is delicate. In the authors' opinion, the North Slope is
not the place for explosions of the size contemplated in this patent.
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Chapter Sixteen
TURNING ON A BILLION WATTS
The actual HAARP instrument - the "ionospheric heater", as it is described
by the military was designed as a modular unit so that it could be increased in size
fully utilizing all previously constructed parts. In other words, they could make it
bigger and bigger without abandoning the parts already installed. The "proof-ofconcept" stage of the program could change smoothly to a full weapon system phase.
Moreover, the entire system could be relocated anywhere in the world in a few months
time.
This is an important factor in enlarging or relocating the facility. The first
phase of the HAARP heater construction is completed and began testing in December,
1994, with testing scheduled through 1995. The second phase of the contract is set up
to increase the power thresholds of the heater several times. Phase one of the project
will yield an effective radiated power of one gigawatt, according to the records, with
the second phase of the project having an effective-radiated-power of "at least
lOOdbW", which is equal to 10 billion watts of power. 163 This concept was
illustrated by Princeton, New Jersey, physicist, Dr. Richard Williams. While
commenting on the HAARP project he said,
"My main abjection to HAARP is that they intend to dump electromagnetic
radiation into the upper atmosphere at very high power levels...The radiated power
level will be between '90 dbW and 100 dbW'...They refer at one point to the need to go
'at least' 100 dbW, One way to visualize this power level is that a 10-billion watt
generator, running continuously for one hour, would deliver a quantity of energy
equal to that of a Hiroshima-size atomic bomb. "164
This is a significant amount of energy, when beamed into a dynamic portion
of the planet's upper atmosphere in order to create artificially controlled high energy
interactions.
In the most elusive document, the future hope of the program planners was
shown to be on the order of 100 gigawatts (100 billion watts) of effective radiated
power. 165 This is futuristic because power sources are not available at this location
to provide the required input power to gain this output.
The effective-radiated-power, in a focused beam, which HAARP produces can
be modulated in a number of ways, giving the operator an incredibly versatile
weapon. The versatility of the system is disclosed in both the APTI patents and other
government documents.
163 HAARP HF Active Auroral Research Program, Joint Program Plans and Activities, Air Force
Geophysics Laboratory, Navy Office of Naval Research, February 1990,
164 Letter to Ryan Ross, Natural Resources News Service from Dr. Richard Williams, Physicist,
Princeton University. November 7, 1994.
165 PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195; "Presentations from the HAARP Workshop on
Ionospheric Heating Diagnostics, 30 April - 2 May 1991, Phillips Laboratory (AFSC), Hanscom AFB,
MA. 01731-5000"; Editor, Major Drew Fisher; October 22, 1991.
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There has always been some confusion on the part of many
HAARP opponents over the power used in the HAARP "heater". The
government explained this as, "a difference between 'total radiated
power' and 'effective radiated power' (ERP). That difference is
antenna gain, which in HAARP's case is a factor of nearly 1000 (at
10 MHz)."166 What this means is that to get to one gigawatt of
output requires one megawatt of input power which can be delivered
by the on-site generators. Another way to state this would be: one
megawatt of input power is equal to one million watts, multiplied
by one thousand (antenna gain). This will yield one billion watts of
effective radiated power - one gigawatt.
1 megawatt x 1000 = 1 gigawatt = 1 billion watts ERP
166 Letter From John Heckscher, HAARP Program Manager, Department of the Air Force, Phillips
Laboratory, to Dr. Arther Grey, Secretary, Spectrum planning Subcommittee, National
Telecommunications Information Administration, United States Department of Commerce, November
17,1994.
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Chapter Seventeen
NUCLEAR EXCAVATION
CREATING THE BAY
The University of Alaska, Fairbanks, in its zeal for recognition as a leader
in geophysics and engineering, has a marred history. "Project Chariot" was a
program proposed as part of "Project Plowshare" which was designed to find peaceful
uses for nuclear energy. This project was researched by Dan O'Neill and reported in
his 1994 book, The Firecracker Boys. The project was promoted by the Lawrence
Radiation Laboratory, which planned to detonate six thermonuclear bombs underground to excavate a harbor at Cape Thompson, Alaska. The plan of the project
organizers was that if this application of nuclear technology could be tested on
United States soil these technologies could be easily promoted in other friendly
countries, This would enable, for example, easy excavation of a new Suez or Panama
Canal, both of which were in the minds of program planners. Project Plowshare was
another Jules Verne story which was only too true.
The idea that a few activists could stop these types of experiments, even
during the peak of the "Cold War", was amazing. Equally outstanding are the ongoing
efforts of "NO HAARP' members in slowing and perhaps preventing the
environmental vandalism contemplated by these new military planners.
Is the HAARP project another error in the judgment of the military, using
the University and others in Alaska? Are they playing with the same incredible level
of power that Edward Teller tried to sell Alaska in the past with Project Plowshare?
Dr. Teller returned to Alaska in 1987 to promote the Star Wars defense initiative. He
was proposing to install a laser-like weapon on the North Slope of
Alaska, These new system details were not openly discussed,
because "Star Wars" systems are classified. From the tone, and content, of
his presentations however, we deduce that what he was promoting in 1987 may have
been a new and complex weapon system the HAARP project.
When Dr. Bernard Eastlund, the inventor of much of the innovative HAARP
technology, described his ideas they sounded a lot like Star Wars. He said his
invention would allow many of the same effects achieved with satellite deployed
systems, but from the ground. The use of ground, rather than satellite systems, was
explained by Eastlund in a recent interview when he said, "In other words, you radiate
energy up there in such a way that you accelerate the electrons without using a
machine up there. That's the advantage" 167. This allows steering, focusing,
modulating, and otherwise manipulating, to the will of the operator, provided the
operator knows the frequencies and wave forms necessary to change the
electromagnetic structure of ionospheric chemicals and conditions. The ability to
manipulate the ionosphere is critical to a planetary shield, which was one of the
applications defined by Dr. Eastlund and referred to in his, and the other, patents
assigned to APTI.
167 Interview with Dr. Eastlund by Jeane Manning, February 20,1995.
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The advantage of a ground based system is its limited vulnerability to
attack. To position a ground based Star Wars system within the United States would
mean that a country wishing to destroy it would have to enter the territory of the
United States, which would be an overt act of war. The use of this system will have
possible ramifications throughout the world. Those transmitters already operating
have been reported by some to have had negative effects beyond the borders of the
countries using them. 168,169 Even though firing up these new heaters would violate
the interests of the majority of humans on the planet, by impinging on
internationally recognized free spaces, the project moves forward in the interest of
"science" and one country's "national security". At whose expense, and under whose
control, is the naturally occurring global shield - the ionosphere - being vandalized?
Eastlund went on to talk about his patents and what he envisioned by
putting so much energy into the ionosphere. He discussed creating a "mirror" and
bouncing radio waves off of it in order to gain a number of effects. These are the same
effects described in the February 1990 HAARP document170 put out by the military
and in a later 1991 report buried by theml71. In these two reports they disclosed the
development of an "Artificial Ionospheric Mirror (AIM)". In fact, a careful reading of
the Eastlund patents and the nine other patents uncovered in our research and the
HAARP Documents read as though they were written by the same person. As Eastlund
said, "If you read my patent, one of the things I do is put a burst up and make the
mirror, and there's a way of doing a lot of things with a ground-based system. At the
time, SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative, Star Wars) was a very big program.
Everybody wanted to put things up in space to do these things; this was a real
alternative approach to it, a ground based system." 172
Dr. Eastlund's system was Star Wars without the vulnerability of satellites,
but with a lot of other implications. In August 1991, Peter Koert was granted a patent
for a system which could produce an Artificial Ionospheric Mirror composed of a
plasma layer which could be tilted. In his patent he cites the earlier work of Dr.
Eastlund. 173 Koert was also one of the "key personnel" identified in the contracts
between APTI and the United States military for building the HAARP transmitter. 174
The HAARP system provides a "proof-of-concept" system for demonstrating this
technology. The patent issued to Koert was one of several of his patents useful to the
HAARP project, all of which were assigned to APTI, as shown in the United States
government's own records.
In February, 1995, the Star Wars missile defense shield was supposed to be
dead. The United States House of Representatives by a 218 to 212 voted to kill the
168 Scorched Earth: The Military's Assault on the Environment, by William Thomas, New Society
Publishers, Chapter 11.
169 Super-Memory: The Revolution, by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, pages 292-304.
170 HAARP HF Active Auroral Research Program, Joint Program Plans and Activities, Air Force
Geophysics Laboratory, Navy Office of Naval Research, February 1990.
171 PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195; "Presentations from the HAARP Workshop on
Ionospheric Heating Diagnostics, 30 April - 2 May 1991, Phillips Laboratory (AFSC), Hanscom AFB,
MA. 01731-5000"; Editor, Major Drew Fisher; October 22,1991.
172 Interview with Dr. Eastlund by Jeane Manning, February 20,1995.
173 United States Patent Number 5,041,834.
174 Office of Naval Research Contract Number N00014-92-C-0210.
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program.175 Yet HAARP continues on while the motives of the military are hidden
from the world.
In 1962, Project Plowshare was stopped because the project was identified
as too risky and unnecessary. It was discontinued because the scientists were able to
conduct their "proof-of-concept" experiments in Nevada (where objections were not
presented by the populace, and the damage not disclosed by the government until
decades later). It was also finally admitted by the government that these uses were
unsafe and had to be cast aside, in the end, as international disarmament talks
conducted through the 1960's and 1970"s. So ended the concept of nuclear excavation
and Dr. Teller's "safe" use of nuclear energy. Perhaps its time we took a harder look at
HAARP?
175 GOP's Military Revamp Stumbles on 'Star Wars', by David Hess, Knight-Ridder Newspapers,
reported in the Anchorage Daily News, February 16,1995, pg. A3.
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Chapter Eighteen
THERMONUCLEAR WEAPONS
REPLACED BY ELECTROPULSE
Patent number 4,686,605, issued August 11, 1987 to Bernard J. Eastlund
and assigned to APTI. is one of three related patents by the same inventor. The
primary patent, once demonstrated to be effective to the satisfaction of the patent
examiner, was sealed under a National Security Order for a year in the late 1980's. The
patent is quoted as follows:
"In the past several years, substantial effort has been made to understand
and explain the phenomena involved In belts of trapped electrons and ions, and to
explore the possible ways to control and use these phenomena for beneficial purposes.
For example, in the late 1950's and early 1960's both the United States and the U.S.S.R.
detonated a series of nuclear devices of various yields to generate large numbers of
charged particles at various altitudes, e.g. 200 kilometers or greater." 176
The Eastlund patented technology effectively replaced the electromagnetic
pulse effects which were previously created by atmospheric thermonuclear
detonations. This particular Eastlund ionospheric heater application took the concept
to a new level of control and manipulation not previously possible. To gain the
ability to "control" the processes with a non-radioactive producing technology is
viewed as highly favorable for military planners. Radio frequency radiation (RFR) can
produce negative health effects, the mechanism by which these effects occur is not
well understood enough to raise the same level of concerns as thermonuclear fallout
eventually did. However, the effects of RFR can have serious health consequences as
indicated in numerous studies conducted by the military. These health effects have
never been adequately disclosed to the American public or international community
by the HAARP project planners.
The Eastlund patent went on;
"This can cause confusion of or interference with or even complete
disruption of guidance systems employed by even the most sophisticated of airplanes
and missiles. The ability to employ and transmit over very wide areas of the earth a
plurality of electromagnetic waves of varying frequencies and to change same at will
in a random manner, provides a unique ability to interfere with all modes of
communication, land, sea, and/or air, at the same time. Because of the unique
juxtaposition of usable fuel source at the point where desirable field lines intersect
the earth's surface, such wide ranging and complete communication interference can
be achieved in a reasonably short period of time...Thus, this invention provides the
ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the earth's atmosphere at strategic
locations and to maintain the power injection level, particularly if random pulsing is
employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore
accomplished by the prior art, particularly by detonation of nuclear devices of
176 U.S. Patent #4,686,605.
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various yields at various altitudes...Further, by knowing the frequencies of various
electromagnetic beams employed in the practice of this invention it is possible not only
to interfere with third party communications but to take advantage of one or more such
beams to carry out a communications network even though the rest of the world's
communications are disrupted. Put another way, what is used to disrupt another's
communications can be employed by one knowledgeable of this invention as a
communication network at the same time. In addition, once one's own communication
network is established, the far-reaching extent of the effects of this invention could be
employed to pick up communication signals of others for intelligence purposes." 177
"This invention has a phenomenal variety of possible ramifications and
potential future developments. As alluded to earlier, missile or aircraft destruction,
deflection, or confusion could result, particularly when relativistic particles are
employed. Also, large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high
altitude so that missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with
resultant destruction or deflection of same. Weather modification is possible by, for
example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes
of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device. "178
It should be pointed out that the device invented by Eastlund would be
ideally employed where there were large sources of natural gas and that it had to be
erected in the most northern latitudes possible, to take advantage of the location
where the earth's naturally occurring lines of force intersect the planet. In the
patents, he recommended the North Slope of Alaska, where the largest reserves of
natural gas in the United States are found and where these lines intersect the planet.
Moreover, Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) was the parent company of APTI, the
assigned owner of the Eastlund patents, and the owner of trillions of cubic feet of
natural gas on the North Slope. 179 APTI became the initial HAARP contractor.
In 1987 Dr. Edward Teller described a new component of Star Wars
technology, a laser like weapon for the North Slope of Alaska. Could HAARP be part
of the Star Wars weapons system being promoted in 1987 by Dr. Teller? We believe
that this is the case, and that what HAARP represents is a first stage "proof-ofconcept" undertaking which, if proven valid, will expand to a full-blown military
program. The idea of a ground-based versus a satellite-based defense shield is an
important consideration in that satellites arc significantly more vulnerable and
costly to repair once launched into orbit. Moreover, to stop a United States ground
based system would require a terrorist attack or invasion. That would be an overt act of
war on the part of an adversary. If deployed from ground based locations in the United
States, or within the territorial boundaries of our allies, the shield has distinct
military advantages.
While the currently constructed and planned future expansion of HAARP
may not be large enough to create all of the Eastlund effects, it is of sufficient size to
177 U.S. Patent #4,686,605.
178 Ibid,
179 United States Patent No. 4,686,605 issued August 11, 1987 to Bernard J. Eastlund and
assigned to APTI, Inc.
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test many of the ideas in the patents. 180 Military spokesmen deny that they are
using any of the Eastlund ideas; however, careful review of the materials lead to the
inescapable conclusion that the military is misleading the public again. Moreover, it
was reported by Dr. Eastlund in a National Public Radio broadcast in 1988181 that the
military had tested some of the ideas in the patents before removing the secrecy
orders. In a more recent interview, this fact was again confirmed by Dr. Eastlund. 182
A review of the other nine patents originally held by APTI, when overlain on the
military planning documents, leaves researchers with an understanding of this new
weapon system experiment - clearly countering the military's public
pronouncements.
Going back to 1984, the United States Air Force's Major Norman H.
Ruotanen, wrote a paper which became a chapter in a most interesting publication.
"Nuclear and Electromagnetic Warfare in Low-Intensity Conflict". The chapter
considered the use of nuclear weapons for creating electromagnetic pulses (EMP) in
order to disable electronic systems of adversaries. The Major went on to discuss a less
intrusive method and perhaps a method which could be better controlled. He describes
the system:
"Nuclear EMP devices are not the only way to create damaging
electromagnetic pulses. Electrical power supply, power conditioning, and microwave
source device technologies have advanced to the point where one could feasibly
generate electromagnetic pulses in the radio frequency regime by conventional means
that are powerful enough to disrupt, damage, or destroy systems utilizing the highly
susceptible electrical components. "183
"A conventional EMP weapon would somewhat resemble a very powerful
radar system. It could be deployed on a space platform, in an aircraft, or on a truck or
ship. Unlike the nuclear EMP devices that illuminate large areas with damaging EMP,
the conventional system would be used against specific point targets. At long ranges,
the EMP could disrupt or upset target electrical systems. At closer ranges, electrical
components in the target would be burned out and permanently damaged. Both
aggressor and the defender in the low-intensity conflict would have many uses for such
conventional EMP weapons. This type of electromagnetic warfare is quite bloodless
and,
therefore,
quite
appealing
when
international
opinions
are
considered...Although this electromagnetic warfare is a relatively benign form of
combat that generally kills systems, not people, some antipersonnel applications are
currently being considered, such as the use of the very powerful microwave devices to
confuse, disable, or even kill the enemy. The use of these advancing technologies for
intelligence gathering, disinformation, and enemy interrogation is even
speculated.. "184
The military planners and strategists of the early-to-middle 1980's were
180 Interview with Dr. Eastlund by Jeane Manning, February 20,1995.
181 Interview with Dr. Eastlund by National Pubic Radio, 1988.
182 Interview with Dr. Eastlund by Jeane Manning, February 20, 1995.
183 Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology, Lt Col. David J. Dean USAF, Editor, Air
University Press, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base,
Alabama, June 1986.
184 Ibid. pages 245-246.
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convinced of the long predicted possibilities of radio frequency radiation weapons
systems. Given this interest, it becomes obvious why the military was so quick to
develop the Eastlund technology. His ideas were the missing link which stimulated
the series of other patents needed for the HAARP program. The HAARP system, with
its collection of technological breakthroughs, would provide a tool for performing
its disruptive tasks over a wide geographical area and perhaps eventually over the
entire planet.
Obviously these concepts were already well understood by the military in
1984, The HAARP system is the largest concept-delivery system ever built by the
military for this technology. The use of HAARP for these applications is spoken
about throughout the government records, excluding the uses against humans. This is
where the information and military disinformation becomes cloudy. What is clear is
that HAARP can be used for these purposes. Meanwhile, it is still being misrepresented by the military as only a scientific research tool.
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Chapter Nineteen
CHARGED PARTICLE RAIN
CRITICAL OMISSION
An article in Science News in 1982 said joint research carried out by
scientists from Lockheed Space Sciences Laboratory in Palo Alto, California and
Stanford University had found that very low frequency transmitters (HAARP will
produce emissions in these ranges in some applications) caused streams of particles
to rain down from the outermost regions of the atmosphere. The research was funded
by the Office of Naval Research (one of the project controllers of HAARP). Their
experiments confirmed that "even low frequency radio waves leak into the
magnetosphere, causing the phenomenon. There the radio signals are amplified as
much as 1,000 times, altering the motion of free electrons thousands of miles out in
space."185 Even though one of the scientists involved in HAARP, Dr. Amran Iman,
was quoted in the article, none of this information was in the Environmental Impact
Statement on HAARP. This scientist's involvement in the current project was
confirmed by John Heckscher, HAARP Program Manager, in a letter responding to a
request for information.186 Dr. Iman, at the time of the Stanford University research,
saw this as an opportunity to use the magnetic lines of force in the upper atmosphere
to enhance communications and to be able to conduct controlled experiments in the
ionosphere (which later became an expressed area of interest for the HAARP
program).
As mentioned in Chapter Nine, Stanford University's work goes back even
further, to the research efforts of Robert Helliwell, who revealed in 1975 that we were
already inadvertently altering the ionosphere with Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio
waves from power lines. While working in Antarctica, he discovered that these
energy signals could be multiplied by up to 1000 times by a coherent interaction With
particles in the radiation belts. These radio waves cause an "electronic rain in the
ionosphere, and this inevitably alters weather patterns in the lower atmosphere." 187
It turned out that the Department of Defense (DoD) was working on this concept
before 1976.188 The use of "coherent VLF" was also discussed with John Heckscher,
HAARP Program Managerl89, regarding geophysical probing for earth-penetrating
tomography applications of HAARP. In that discussion, he did not mention this
multiplying factor (which happens when the signal in the VLF range reaches the
ionosphere). This 1000-times multiplying factor creates a huge question, a big hole
in the Environmental Impact Statement, and maybe disruption in normal weather
patterns. This "coherent signal" is also mentioned in a communication from Paul C.
Roosa, Jr., Chairman of the United States Department of Commerce, National
Telecommunications and Information Administration, Inter-department Radio
185 "VLF: Getting Particles Excited", Science News, December 18 and 25, 1982, pg.392.
186 Letter From John Heckscher, HAARP Program Manager, Department of the Air Force, Phillips
Laboratory, to Dr. Arther Grey, Secretary, Spectrum planning Subcommittee, National
Telecommunications Information Administration, United States Department of Commerce, November
17,1994.
187 The Cooling, by Lowell Ponte, 1976, pg 169.
188 Ibid.
189 Interview with John Heckscher by Jeane Manning, 2-21-95.
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Advisory Committee, Spectrum Planning Committee which oversees frequency
assignments and reviews interactions of broadcasters.
This multiplying factor was either ignored by Roosa's group, or they lacked
the understanding of this upper atmospheric interaction. 190 The research into
"charged particle rain" started in the Antarctic, moved to Stanford and then to Alaska from the bottom of the globe to the top of the world. The problem with this being
omitted from HAARP documents is that these energy/atmospheric interactions, at
current levels of man-induced radiations, are already causing possible weather and
other environmental hazards. Increasing the energy deliberately transferred to the
upper atmosphere through ionospheric heaters becomes a horrendous act of bad
judgment. In fact, in the early 1990's it was reported by Dr. W. Volkrodt of Bad
Neustadt, West Germany, that these low frequency radio radiations might be
responsible for both environmental and human health problems.191
Throughout the press releases and "fact sheets" spewed out by the military
representatives on the project, the focus is on the innocuous academic/scientific
research inquires made via HAARP. This is a deception, and deflection from the real
"heart" of the program as described in the early planning sessions on the project. A
full list of the participants in the planning session was released, and it includes all of
the principal players from the universities, APTI, and the military. These same
individuals worked together, over the next several years, deflected public attention
away from the project.
How much these people individually knew of the project's real intent is
unknown. Following the standard military approach to these types of efforts, we
assume that participants were only given the pieces of information they needed to do
their jobs. The research shows that APTI was a Star Wars subsidiary of Atlantic
Richfield Corporation (ARCO), and some of the "key personnel" assigned by APTI to
the project were the inventors of some of the patents eventually discussed in the
military records on the HAARP project.
The HAARP system is a tool, a radio frequency transmitter and broadcasting
system of immense power. From the perspective of the geophysicist, it has certain
applications, but to the physiologist and behaviorist perhaps it offers a much
different set of possibilities. Regard-less of the public relations proclamations by
Heckscher and others, the record says it all,
"The heart of the program will be the development of a unique ionospheric
heating capability to conduct the pioneering experiments required to adequately
assess the potential for exploiting ionospheric enhancement technology for DoD
purposes."
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190 Letter To Mr. Larry D. Gondek from Paul C, Roosa, Jr., Chairman of the United States
Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration,
Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee, Spectrum Planning Committee, December 15, 1994.
191 American/European magazine, Raum & Zeit, Vol. 1 No. 2, 1989, pages 52-57,
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Are these DoD purposes for innocuous scientific research or for someone's
vision of high-tech hardware for enhancing the warfare capability of the United
States? 192
192 HAARP HF Active Auroral Research Program, Joint Program Plans and Activities, Air Force
Geophysics Laboratory, Navy Office of Naval Research, February 1990.
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CHAPTER TWENTY
BLURRED VISIONS OF THE MILITARY
In a fact sheet issued by the Office of Naval Research and Phillips
Laboratory about HAARP dated November 4, 1993 the following is written:
"The proposed research will be undertaken using high power radio
transmitters to probe the overhead ionosphere, combined with a complement of
modem scientific diagnostic instruments to investigate the results of the
interactions. "193
"HAARP will be constructed at auroral latitudes in Alaska. A unique feature
of the research facility would be a high-power high-frequency radio transmitter with
the capability of rapidly steering a narrow beam of energy toward a designated region
in the sky. (This innovation of the Eastlund patent makes it the most unique
ionospheric heater in the world.) Similar, though less capable, research facilities
exist today at many locations throughout the world and are operated routinely for the
purpose of scientific investigation of the ionosphere. In the U.S. such systems are
located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and Fairbanks, Alaska. Other installations are at
Tromso, Norway; Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Apatity, Russia; Kharkov, Ukraine
and Dushanbe, Tadzhikistan. None of these existing systems, however, have the
combination of frequency capability and beam steering agility required to perform the
experiments planned for HAARP. "194
A significant difference between what these other facilities are capable of is
that HAARP was designed to focus the radiofrequency transmission into a narrow
beam. 195 At the time that Eastlund invented his particular phased array method of
focusing radiofrequency radiation, the best which could otherwise be achieved, from
the ground to altitudes of 100 kilometers, was about one millionth of one watt
per cubic centimeter. Using a full sized Eastlund ionospheric heater, power
levels of one watt per cubic centimeter could be achieved, a million times
increase in delivered power. Even with a smaller array, like the first phase of
HAARP, a comparison to the other ionospheric heaters cannot be fairly made because
even the smaller HAARP transmitter would have many times more power than
anything in the world at the present time, in terms of power delivered into the
ionosphere. The other ionospheric heaters spread the radiation out, rather than
focusing it like the HAARP transmitter. 196
The way the energy is focused can be visualized using one of the diagrams
Eastlund submitted to the patent examiner when getting his first patent filed. The
diagram shows the old technology beaming the energy up to the ionosphere in a cone
of power with the wide end of the cone reaching the ionosphere. The new technology
utilizes the opposite approach: the beamed energy is focused to a point in the
193 HAARP Fact Sheet, November 4, 1993, issued by Phillips Laboratory.
194 Ibid.
195 HAARP Fact Sheet, March 2,1995, issued by Phillips Laboratory.
196 Interview Dr. Eastlund by Jeane Manning, February 20, 1995.
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ionosphere. It is this concept which differentiates Eastlund's concept from that of
other existing radio transmitters used for ionospheric heating. It is this concept that
the military is moving toward at the HAARP site, although a full-size Eastlund
system, at this time, is not being used. The second phase planned for HAARP will
have between 4,700,000,000 and 10,000,000,000 watts of effective radiated power
(ERP) coming off the antennas at ground level. This was what was planned
according
to the contract for construction, 197 which specified ERP levels of "at least" 10
billion watts. However, this was not what was "desired" in terms of upper power level
thresholds. What was "desired" by the planning team was 100 billion watts of ERP,
according to the record, ten times the phase two level of the project. 198
"An exciting and challenging aspect of ionospheric enhancement is its
potential to control ionospheric processes in such a way as to greatly improve the
performance of C3 systems (C3 systems are Communications, Control and Command
systems. The military refers to them as C3. These are usually linked to Intelligence as
C31 systems.). A key goal of the program is the identification and investigation of those
ionospheric processes and phenomena that can be exploited for DoD purposes, such
as those outlined below... Generation of ELF waves... Geophysical probing...
Generation of ionospheric lenses...Electron acceleration...Generation of
geomagnetic-field aligned ionization... Oblique heating... Generation of ionization
layers below 90KM... the most exciting and challenging aspect of ionospheric
enhancement is its potential to control ionospheric processes in such a way as to
greatly enhance the performance of C3 systems (or, to deny accessibility to an
adversary). "199
The military goes on to describe their excitement about the possibility of
"seizing" control of the ionosphere and bending it into the shape which serves their
purposes. These are the statements within the government reports which ring the
loudest with the inflections of Eastlund, the inventor of the primary APTI patents. A
look at the government claimed capabilities follows, and is explained further in other
sections of this book.
Geophysical
Probing
In the 1990 planning meeting summary, HAARP planners devote few words
to geophysical probing. They say that this is a "by-product" of other applications of
the ionospheric heater, the HAARP transmitter. As the years moved forward,
however, this use becomes increasingly important to the project. The idea that this
tool, HAARP, could be used for earth probing purposes is never explored in the
federal Environmental Impact Statement on the project. That document says that the
radio-frequency radiation coming from HAARP will be directed upward and would not
have an affect on surface areas, while other HAARP records describe and diagram a
ground effect. Yet, it is precisely this use which may have the most far-reaching
effects on animal migration patterns and human health.
197 Office of Naval Research, Contract Number N00014-92-C-0210, ARCO Power Technologies
Incorporated as Contractors, September 16,1992 with Amendments through October 19,1993.
198 PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195; "Presentations from the HAARP Workshop on
Ionospheric Heating Diagnostics, 30 April - 2 May 1991, Phillips Laboratory (AFSC), Hanscom AFB,
MA. 01731-5000"; Editor, Major Drew Fisher; October 22, 1991, page 182.
199 HAARP HF Active Auroral Research Program, Joint Program Plans and Activities, Air Force
Geophysics Laboratory, Navy Office of Naval Research, February 1990.
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To better understand this use of HAARP - earth-penetrating tomography we need to explore a few different documents. First, let's look again at that 1990
HAARP summary,200 which includes a section dealing with the generation of
extremely low frequency and very low frequency (ELF and VLF) waves. These energy
waves are sent up from the antenna array (HAARP) in such a way so it "produces a
virtual antenna in the ionosphere for radiation of radio waves" back to earth. The
antenna created in the ionosphere then radiates, or sends back, the pulsed
frequency,
It then moves through the earth, giving the military the ability to locate underground
anomalies such as shelters, nuclear facilities, oil fields, tunnels and other natural and
man made formations.
The second document which explains this application is not revealed until
much later in the program. In the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
1995, the United States Senate stops additional spending on the project until the
military outlines a plan which includes a full earth-penetrating tomography program.
The report specifies:
"This transmitter in Alaska, besides providing a world class research
facility for ionospheric physics, could allow earth-penetrating tomography over most
of the northern hemisphere. Such a capability would permit the detection and precise
location of tunnels, shelters, and other underground shelters.,."201
The Senate went on to criticize the military for not bringing forward a
complete plan for implementation of this specific capability as part of the HAARP
program. They told the military to come back with a more comprehensive plan before
they could get any more money.
The third piece of information in this part of the puzzle came out in a radio
interview conducted on December 23, 1994, by Linda Moulton Howe with the HAARP
program director, John Heckscher. Heckscher expressed his frustration in not being
able to move forward on the project because of the Senate action. He made clear that
HAARP could not continue unless the "nonproliferation people" put in the proper
documents which would clarify earth-penetrating tomography as a HAARP project
mission. The non-proliferation people, referred to by Heckscher, are those in the
Pentagon and elsewhere who develop the plans for locating underground military
installations, especially nuclear research and development facilities.
Our research, and critiques by independent scientists, raised questions about
whether or not the earth-penetrating tomography application would work in a "hot
war" environment. For it to work there need to be instruments on the ground, or
traversing the ground at very, very low altitudes. Our technical review indicated that it
would be difficult to do this in combat. But it could be used in other situations. It
could be used to verify nonproliferation agreements and other peace agreements where
the country to be probed allowed the U. S. military to install ground sensors.
200 HAARP HF Active Auroral Research Program, Joint Program Plans and Activities, Air Force
Geophysics Laboratory, Navy Office of Naval Research, February 1990.
201 The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995,103rd Congress, 2nd Session,
Report #103-282, Calendar No. 459, Report to Accompany S.2182, Committee on Armed Services
United States Senate, June 14 (legislative day June 7)1994.
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Earth-penetrating tomography could also be used for minerals, and oil
exploration, as referred to in the Anchorage Daily News:
"UAF researchers have plans for HAARP's radio waves when they bounce
back to the Earth. They hope to harness the energy waves after they hit the ground
with
a small antenna affixed to a helicopter. They might be able to use the radio waves to
explore for mineral deposits and even oil... "202
Searching for oil is one of the many HAARP experiments which is not
part of the estimated $175 million budget for the first two phases of the project.
To find out more about earth-penetration mapping the authors contacted
HAARP program manager Heckscher in late February, 1995. He said it would use "in
terms of frequency, like 10 or 20 Hertz (pulses per second) or maybe one Hertz, one
cycle per second type waves."203 This range of frequencies is a very important point.
These frequencies are the same dominate frequencies within which the human brain
normally operates! This potential impact on people will be explored further in
another chapter.
The idea of using HAARP for earth-penetrating tomography was anticipated
from the very beginning of HAARP. That this tool could be used to produce this "byproduct" was always known but downplayed in the records. However, the usage must
have been promoted in selling the project to the United States Senate, The unexpected
result was that the Senate gave priority to this aspect.
The fact that the system will send a huge amount of energy into the
ionosphere, and return a large portion of that energy to the earth, with possible
ionospheric amplifications or induced charged particle rain, is alarming. Potential
environmental implications have not been fully disclosed and most likely are not
well understood.
These uses were never discovered by those opposed to the HAARP project
until late 1994, and only confirmed by a review of the Congressional Record at that
time. Formal objections to the nondisclosure of the biological effects of ELF on
living things in the earth-penetrating tomography application of the technology
were filed with various governmental agencies, but to no avail. We could not clearly
find out the facts until late January 1995, much after the regulating authorities had
already granted the go-ahead for HAARP testing. The only remaining barrier to
HAARP raised by the United States Senate was the question of funding. This question
was partially resolved in the 1996 defense budget funding that included $10 million
for HAARP, 20% of the total allocated for counterproliferation projects.
Generation of ELF/VLF Waves
These kinds of waves are used for DoD communication systems. Currently,
waves are produced "from the Navy's existing antenna systems in Wisconsin and
202 "Transmitter Plan Leaves Public Uneasy", Anchorage Daily News, pages B-1 and B-3.
203 Interview of John Heckscher, HAARP Program Manager, with Jeane Manning, 2-21-1995.
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Michigan. Because this area of research appears especially promising, and because of
existing DoD requirements for ELF and VLF, it is already a primary driver of the
proposed HAARP research program."
As a "primary driver" this again shows that the project is important to the
military in terms of Department of Defense (DoD) applications. Beyond the
communication possibilities, these types of radio frequencies could be used to
manipulate the radiation belts of the ionosphere in a manner which would allow
satellites to operate safely in these regions without damage to the satellites'
electronics. This use was discussed in the Eastlund patents as well as the HAARP
records.
The possibility of using HAARP for these multiple purposes is particularly
attractive to the military at a time when funding is increasingly a greater issue for all
United States governmental agencies. The HAARP system could consolidate costs of
several otheT defense systems by combining them into one tool.
Another consideration that is not discussed in the Environmental Impact
Statement, to any significant degree, is the raging global scientific debate on the
effects of extremely low frequencies (ELF) on living organisms, including human
beings. The military's representative, Dr. Klaunenberg, during one of the hearings on
the project, made a point of referring to a large file containing materials on the
various radiations emitted by HAARP and then stated, "All that didn't go into the
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS); as a matter of fact, that reduced to just a
couple of lines. And 1 know what your, wheTe you're coming from and 1 share your
concerns."204
The military, particularly the Air Force and Navy, have extensive research
on the negative effects of ELF. These effects have been well documented with basic
research which is expanding geometrically in volume every year. The government
handily deflected the concerns raised in the public hearings in Alaska by playing
down the results of this research and minimizing the risks. This was the same way the
government promoted other military systems while deflecting public concern in such
areas as nuclear testing experiments205,206, LSD experiments on unknowing
individuals207, 208, radiation experiments on people who were not informed of the
risks and in many other areas - under the guise of National Security209, 210.
204 Final Environmental Impact Statement Volume II, Proposed High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program, July 1993, pg. 10-42.
205 staff Memorandum, Advisory Committee Staff to the Member of the President's Advisory
Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, June 27,1994, (provided by: International Committee
lor The Convention Against Offensive Microwave Weapons)
206 National Journal, Volume 27, No. 18, "Rays ot Terror" by Margaret Kritz, May 6, 1995, Pages
1099-1109. (provided by: International Committee for The Convention Against Offensive Microwave
Weapons)
207 Report to the President bv the Commission on CIA Activities Within The United States. June
1975, pages 225-231.
206 Staff Memorandum, Advisory Committee Staff to the Member of the President's Advisory
Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, June 27, 1994. (provided by: international Committee
for The Convention Against Offensive Microwave Weapons)
209 Ibid.
210 National Journal, Volume 27, No. 18, "Rays of Terror" by Margaret Kritz, May 6,1995, Pages
1099-1109. (provided by: International Committee for The Convention Against Offensive Microwave
Weapons)
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Acceleration
This trick of HAARP would allow the military to alter the ionosphere in a
way which would effectively block satellite observation of areas under a selected
portion of the ionosphere. Thus the military could more easily "condition the
ionosphere so that it would support HF (high-frequency) propagation during periods
when the natural ionosphere was especially weak. This could potentially be exploited
for long range (Over-the-Horizon) HF communication/surveillance purposes."
This use was previously envisioned by Eastlund and others.
The HAARP facility was located at the site originally intended for the "Over
the Horizon Radar" facility, which was dropped after the end of the Cold War
according to the government record. The HAARP facility will allow the government
to replace the "Backscatter Radar" with a new, more versatile facility, in a more bang
for the buck application!
There were other patents controlled by APTI which grew out of the Eastlund
patents which could be used in this application. They are U.S. patent numbers
4,999,637 and 5,041,834, which are exactly what the government seemed to be
seeking and now has achieved in HAARP. The military claimed that they were not
using the Eastlund patents for this particular use, but what they couldn't deny was that
the patents they were using were the outgrowth of the Eastlund concepts. These two
patents specifically refer to Eastlund's work in their conceptual development. The
HAARP program offers the military the over-the-horizon radar capability, again
demonstrating the sort of all in one tool that HAARP is designed to provide.
The projects that HAARP technology replaces make it potentially one of
the most powerful and cost-effective weapon systems yet developed by the military,
while at the same time being potentially one of the most dangerous since the
development of thermonuclear weapons.
Generation of Field-Aligned Ionization
In this section of the military documents describing HAARP, control of the
ionospheric processes would allow the military to maintain communication above a
nuclear disturbed ionospheric region, and would allow very long range detection of
missiles. The document also mentioned a 1992 satellite experiment that tested this
theory, using a "heater in Alaska".
The only other known heater in Alaska is HIPAS, at the University of
Alaska facilities near Fairbanks (although this was not specifically named). HAARP
was not yet constructed in 1992.
This use has to do with the control and manipulation of the ionosphere for
military purposes. The technology which makes these effects is referred to in several
of the patents held by APTI.
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Oblique HF Heating
This area involves projection of the beam, to alter the ionosphere up to
1000 km or more from the heater. This is an interesting ability, considering the
military - throughout their public relations efforts - has stated that the heater affected
region would be mainly above the HAARP facility itself. The idea that the beam
might be steered in a way which reached these lateral (side) distances was not fully
disclosed in the Environmental Impact Statements. The point here is that the
device can manipulate the ionosphere over a wide area and not just above the heater.
Oblique HF heating is useful for over-the-horizon radar, as well as for
many of the other uses desired by the military. We talk about the steering elsewhere,
when discussing the use of the HAARP transmitter as the military's long sought after
radio frequency radiation weapon. This type of use was first publicly disclosed by
an Air Force captain who was reporting on new technologies in a military
conference in 1984.211 Such a weapon could disable humans and impair their mental
functions, among other things.
Generation of Ionization Layers Below 90 km
This use has already been proven, according to the HAARP summary by the
Air Force and Navy,
"The Air Force in particular has carried the concept, termed Artificial
Ionospheric Mirror (AIM), to the point of demonstrating its technical viability and
proposing a new initiative to conduct proof-of-concepts experiments."
This concept will lead to a number of other uses, including "long range,
over-the-horizon, HF/VHF/UHF surveillance purposes, including the detection of
cruise missiles and other low observables."
This again is the more bang for the buck military application which, on the
surface, feels good to most taxpaying Americans. The idea that one tool can be used
to achieve all of these capabilities is astounding. The idea that so many weapon
systems of perceived adversaries could be rendered obsolete is far reaching in its
implications. However, the risks are still not well defined in the documents issued by
the government on HAARP. The project has not been reviewed because of the limited
releases of information which has denied more-objective observers and other
scientists the opportunity to consider the HAARP system. The fundamental question,
as yet unanswered or even addressed, surrounds the risks associated with energizing
this critical portion of our upper atmosphere.
The patents developed by APTI which describe these systems were
discovered in researching this book in April, 1995. It then appeared obvious why
211 Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology, Lt Col. David J. Dean USAF, Editor,
Air University Press, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force
Base, Alabama, June 1986.
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military planners had included some of the "key personnel" in the APTI contract.
Having the technology's inventors and innovators made the project that much more
viable. The military contact had clear language which required the use of these key
people. The contract said that substitution was not permitted without government
consent. More-over, the military added that failure to assign these people to the
project could result in forfeiture of the contract entirely212.
Having the patents remain undiscovered until after the first phase of HAARP
was constructed and tested reduced the possibility of the project being halted. What
the discovery did prove was that HAARP was not just some university research
project, but was the military tool always suspected by the "NO HAARP" compilers.
The press releases and information coming from the military on this project
have continually downplayed its potentials. In the HAARP summary, the government
discusses the need for a high-power heater. Meanwhile, in the public documents and
the letters sent to Congress-men, state legislators and others insist that the HAARP
project is no different than other heaters operating safely throughout the world. In the
1990 documents the governments says,
"...that at the highest HF powers available in the West, the instabilities
commonly studied are approaching their maximum RF energy dissipative capability,
beyond which the plasma processes will 'runaway' until the next limiting factor is
reached."
What the HAARP planners go on to say, when referring to heating the
ionosphere, is that they are certain that they can "drastically alter its thermal,
refractive, scattering, and emission character over a wide electromagnetic (radio
frequency) and optical spectrum."213 The difference with HAARP has to do with the
power beam focusing ability of the transmitter, unlike anything operating elsewhere.
Focusing the energy to a specific point is the unique aspect which
planners were so enthused about.
In summary, according to the military records about HAARP, we have a
project designed to prove the concepts originally discussed in February 1990 and
hatched years before. The direction the military was heading in their research was
finally possible with the invention of the Eastlund ionospheric heater - the most
powerful directed multiple use energy weapon yet conceived.
According to the military, the device had the greatest set of possible uses.
These are uses already proven by Eastlund to the satisfaction of the United States
Patent Office and tested by the military. It was clear that if the military, in
cooperation with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, could show that this new
ground-based "Star Wars" technology was sound, they would both win. The military
would have a relatively inexpensive secure defense shield within the economic reach
of their planners, and the University would be recognized for the most remarkable
212 office of Naval Research, Contract Number N00014-92-C-0210, ARCO Power Technologies
Incorporated as Contractors, September 16,1992 with Amendments through October 19,1993.
213 HAARP HF Active Auroral Research Program, Joint Program Plans and Activities, Air Force
Geophysics Laboratory, Navy Office of Naval Research, February 1990.
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manmade geophysical manipulation since atmospheric detonations of nuclear
bombs. What would follow with the success of the testing would be the military
megaprojects of the future, and huge markets foT North Slope natural gas.
Looking at the other patents which built on the work of Eastlund, it
becomes clearer how the military intends to use the HAARP transmitter, It also makes
governmental denials less believable. The military knows how it intends to use this
technology, and has made it clear in their documents. The military has deliberately
misled the public, through sophisticated word games, deceit and outright
disinformation.
* The HAARP system could give the military a tool to replace the electromagnetic
pulse effect of atmospheric thermonuclear devices, still considered a viable option
by the military through at least 1986.214
* It could replace the huge Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) submarine communication
system operating in Michigan and Wisconsin with a new and more compact
technology.
* It could be used to replace the over-the-horizon radar system once planned for the
current location of HAARP, with a more flexible and accurate system.
* It could provide a way to wipe out communications over an extremely large area,
while keeping operator controlled communications systems working.
* It could provide a wide area earth-penetrating tomography which, if combined with
the computing abilities of EMASS and Cray computers, would make it possible to
verify many parts of nuclear nonproliferation and peace agreements.
* It could provide a tool for geophysical probing which would define oil, gas and
mineral deposits over a large geographical area.
* It could even also be used to detect incoming low level planes and cruise missiles,
making other technological advantages obsolete.
The above abilities seem like a good idea for all of us who believe in sound
national defense and a secure world. These advances seem reasonable to those of us
concerned with the large amounts of national productivity being spent on higher and
higher cost weapon systems at a time when government spending is out of control.
However, the possible uses which the HAARP records do not explain, and
which can only be found in Air Force, Army, Navy and other federal agency records,
are alarming. Moreover, the disaster which could befall all of us on the planet by the
reckless use of these power levels in our natural shield, the ionosphere, could be
cataclysmic.
214 Low-Intensity Conflict ana Modern Technology. Lt Col, David J. Dean USAF, Editor, Air
University Press, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base,
Alabama, June 1986.
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What the military fails to say is that they do not know what exactly will
happen. It should be remembered that this project represents the largest energy
levels yet played with by the big boys with their new toys. This project is an
experiment, and experiments are done when we want to find out something that we do
not already know. So, what will really happen? When we find the answer, we all may
be out of luck and out of time.
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Chapter Twenty-one
RACE WITH THE RUSSIANS
"Similar, though less capable, research facilities exist today at many
locations throughout the world and are operated routinely for the purpose of
scientific investigation of the ionosphere...None of these existing systems, however,
have the combination of frequency capability and beam steering agility required to
perform the experiments planned for HAARP. "215
The program handlers continued to talk to the public as if this ionospheric
heater were really no different than any others around the world. Yet, while promoting
the project and in internal communications, they couldn't resist talking about
HAARP as the biggest "heater" in the world - more powerful than anything in
existence. This technology is more than just the level of effective-radiated-power, or
frequency/wave-form variability, or steering capability. The biggest factor is that in
combination with these abilities, the device focuses power in a way which
yields many, many times more delivered power to the ionosphere
than anything on Earth resembling this device.
This device is a jump ahead in technology, beyond anything else. It is a
leap like comparing a squirt gun to an artillery piece, and the effects are, to a great
extent, unknown once the energy is released beyond certain thresholds. Yet, in
answer to Congressional inquiries, citizen complaints and interagency requests for
information, project manager Heckscher, continuously denies that the system is any
different from what he and other previously said was already operating. He delivers
this information in the form of sophisticated word games, The government craft of
bureaucratese reaches new highs with the HAARP promoters.
In a 1990216 meeting that Heckscher attended, the record stated that "To
date, (only) the Soviet Union has built such a powerful HF (high-frequency) heater.
The highest ERPs (Effective Radiated Power) achieved by U.S. facilities is about one
fourth of that. Presently, a heater in Norway, operated by the Max Planck Institute in
the Federal Republic of Germany, is being reconfigured to provide 1 gigawatt of ERP
at a single HF frequency. The HAARP is to ultimately have an HF heater with an ERP
well above 1 gigawatt (on the order of 95-100 dbW); in short, the most powerful
facility in the world..."217
Was the race with the Soviets part of the picture and the justification for
spending the money? The Russians had been at the game a good deal longer and had a
greater understanding of ionospheric heaters. Again, the emphasis on output size
alone is not enough to describe the technology. It is the combination of size, focused
power beaming, beam maneuverability, waveform generation and frequency -among a
number of other unique capabilities - which make this system so powerful.
2TB HAARP fact sheet, Office of Naval Research, Phillips Laboratory, November 4, 1993.
216 HAARP HF Active Auroral Research Program, Joint Program Plans and Activities, Air Force
Geophysics Laboratory, Navy Office of Naval Research, February 1990.
217 Ibid.
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The issue of power has always been a bit on the confusing side to those
trying to decipher exactly what this device would generate in output power through
the antenna array and what it would take in input power to get there. This issue was
finally cleared up in a letter by John Heckscher where he said, "There is a difference
between 'total radiated power' and 'effective radiated power'. That difference is
antenna gain, which in HAARP's case is a factor of nearly 1000 (at 10 MHz)."2l8
What was also new about this Eastlund invention is that it could focus the huge power
levels onto a single point in the ionosphere. For the first time, the western military
establishment could begin to use the new weapon capabilities.
The Soviets had been playing with their ELF and VLF toys for two decades
by the time the HAARP transmitter was built. They had been testing their ideas and
theories for use of radiofrequency in new weapon systems during those years. The
Soviet radio frequency transmitters had been the source of much controversy
throughout the West. Some in the United States and Canada had blamed such things as
weather manipulation, mind control, radio interference and other unexplainable
atmospheric events219 on the Soviet transmitters which created what became known
as the "woodpecker" signal220.
The sales pitch for HAARP funding fell to the academics at the University of
Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, and they had a friend in the powerful Senator
from Alaska, Ted Stevens. It is doubtful that Stevens had been fully informed by these
professors; the record indicates that he may have been duped into being their voice in
the halls of Congress. Senator Stevens was quoted in a news article as he defended the
funding of the HAARP program, It appears from the report that the Senator may have
been left with incomplete information by the project promoters.
Harness the Aurora?
In mid-1990 Senator Stevens defended his project in a committee meeting
when he said, "1 could tell you about the time when the University of Alaska came to
me and said it might be possible to bring the aurora to Earth. We might be able to
harness the energy in the aurora...". He went on to say, "No one in the Department of
Defense, no one in the Department of Energy, no one in the executive branch was
interested in pursuing it at alt. Why? Because it did not come from the good old boy
network. So I did just what you say I should do. I got Congress to ear-mark the
money, and the experiment is going on now. It will cost $10 million to $20 million.
If it is successful, it will change the history of the world." The actual direct costs of
the first phase of HAARP was about $25 million with the second phase estimated at
$150 million. This does not include the numerous other projects related to, or
complimenting, the HAARP program.
218 Letter From John Heckscher, HAARP Program Manager, Department of the Air Force, Phillips
Laboratory, to Dr. Arther Grey, Secretary, Spectrum planning Subcommittee, National
Telecommunications Information Administration, United States Department of Commerce, November
17, 1994.
219 Super-Memory : The Revolution, by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, pages 292-304.
220 Ibid.
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Senator Stevens went to the floor of the Senate late in the summer of 1990
and declared, "We have in Alaska what I consider to be one of the most exciting
research projects that I have ever encountered," He went on to say, "It is the
experiments that are going on trying to determine if it is possible to harness the
energy of the electrojet for the use of mankind." He said the project "has the potential
of using a laser beam to be a conductor of this energy back to Earth...It is an
experiment that, when 1 first heard about it, I thought someone had rewritten a new
chapter of Jules Veme."221
"The research facility would be used to understand, stimulate and control
ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and
surveillance systems...Potential applications of the HAARP research include
developing DoD technology for detecting cruise missiles and aircraft and for
communicating with submarines. Although HAARP is being managed by the Air Force
and Navy, it is purely a scientific research facility which represents no threat to
potential adversaries and would therefore have no value as a military target. "222
Again it appears that what is really being said is that this is not an
operational weapon system, only a proof-of-concept system. It is designed to
provide a better understanding for future uses as a weapon system. This is an
outrageous statement, which plays on the ignorance of readers of the HAARP records,
and could be equated to the suggestion that the development centers for the atom
bomb during World War II were not potential military targets.
"As the result of a competitive procurement, the Air Force and Navy have
awarded a contract to ARCO Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI) for the design and
construction of the IRI and associated support facilities."223 APTI, according to
liastlund, was set up to do one thing - develop his ideas into marketable technologies.
APTI was not set up as a construction company or an ionospheric research
organization. It was set up to exploit energy in a way which maximized a return to
one of the world's oil giants, Atlantic Richfield Company. What Eastlund did was put
ARCO into the Star Wars business until a company more suited to the project could be
located to buy out their interests. That company was E-Systems. E-Systems' history
and controversy has been documented by CBS's, 60 Minutes as well as by the
Washington Post, and is discussed in this book.
The original bidders on the HAARP project were Penn State University,
Raytheon and APTI.224 The chain of corporate events has been discussed previously,
In June, 1994, APTI was bought out by E-Systems, which in April, 1995, was bought
out by Raytheon Corporation. So, in the end, one of the project's losing bidders,
Raytheon - one of the largest defense contractors in the world - came to own the
technology and the contract.
221 "Porkpie in the Sky", Anchorage Daily News, We Alaskans , December 15,1991 pages 9-14.
222 HAARP Fact Sheet, Office of Naval Research, Phillips Laboratory, November 4, 1993.
223 Ibid.
224 Interview with John Heckscher, HAARP Program Manager and Jeane Manning, February 21,
1995.
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Chapter Twenty-two
ENTRAIN THE BRAIN TO GO INSANE?
New technologies have incredible possibilities for improving the human
brain potential. These technologies are being used to improve learning, memory, and
for human behavior modification. The high-tech tools of the future are here now, and
are being introduced into the market place. A leading writer in the area of brain
technologies has been Michael Hutchison, who opened this field to lay people.
As Hutchison describes it, the brain operates within a relatively narrow
band of predominant frequencies. The predominant brain wave frequencies indicate the
kind of activity taking place in the brain. There are four basic groups of brain wave
frequencies which are associated with most mental activity. The first, beta waves,
(13-35 Hertz or pulses per second) are associated with normal activity when a
person's attention is directed outward, toward normal activities. The high end of this
range is associated with stress or agitated states which can impair thinking and
reasoning skills. The second group, alpha waves (8-12 Hertz), can indicate
relaxation. Alpha frequencies are ideal for learning and focused mental functioning.
The third, theta waves (4-7 Hertz), indicate mental imagery, access to memories and
internal mental focus. This state is often associated with young children, behavioral
modification and sleep/dream states. The last, ultra slow, delta waves (0.5-3 Hertz) are
found when a person is in deep sleep. The general rule is that the brain's predominant
wave frequency will be lowest, in terms of pulses per second, when relaxed, and
highest when people are most alert or agitated.225
External stimulation of the brain by electromagnetic means
can cause the brain to be entrained or locked into phase with an
external signal generator. Predominant brain waves can be driven or pushed
into new frequency patterns by external stimulation. In other words, the external
signal driver or impulse generator entrains the brain, overriding the normal
frequencies causing changes in the brain waves; which then cause changes in brain
chemistry; which then cause changes in brain outputs in the form of thoughts,
emotions or physical condition. As you are driven, so you arrive - brain
manipulation can be either beneficial or detrimental to the individual being impacted.
In combination with specific wave forms the various frequencies trigger
precise chemical responses in the brain. The release of these neurochemicals cause
specific reactions in the brain which result in feelings of fear, lust, depression, love,
etc. All of these, and the full range of emotional/intellectual responses, are caused by
very specific combinations of these brain chemicals which are released by frequencyspecific electrical impulses. "Precise mixtures of these brain juices can produce
extraordinarily specific mental states, such as fear of the dark, or intense
concentration."226 The work in this area is advancing at a very rapid rate with new
225
Mega Brain. New Tools and Techniques (or Brain Growth and. Mind Expansion, by Michael
Hutchison, 1986,
226 Mega Brain, New Tools and Techniques for Brain growth and Mind, Expansion, by Michael
Hutchison, 1986, pg 114.
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discoveries being made regularly. Unlocking the knowledge of these specific
frequencies will yield significant breakthroughs in understanding human health.
Radio frequency radiation, acting as a carrier for extremely low frequencies (ELF),
can be used to wirelessly entrain brain waves. This is what HAARP could do in
certain of its applications; however, the side effects of this on humans are not
explored in the HAARP records but do appear in other government documents
referred to in this book.
Mr. Light, a researcher and owner of Biomedical Instruments, Inc., an
organization which markets electromedical devices used to control or manipulate
brain activity, was quoted extensively in Hutchison's book.227 The power level
needed to achieve a measure of control over brain activity is very small - from 5 to
200 microamperes - which is thousands of times less than the power needed to run
a 60 watt light bulb. We are talking about very, very low power requirements. The
trick for influencing brain activity is in the combination of frequency, power level
and wave form. What has taken place oveT the last two decades, and most
particularly in the last several years, represents huge moves forward.
Research internationally found that the brain can be easily entrained or
can be influenced to change states by external electromagnetic fields. These
discoveries have provided new tools for both scientists and lay people. The new
tools include electrical cranial stimulation devices, sound systems, light pulse systems
and a large variety of other brain entrainment and feedback devices. Technological
advances also have been applied to special monitoring and control devices which
allow people to learn how to control and manipulate their own brain activity for
beneficial results. Reports include relaxation, pain control, speed learning and memory
improvements, among others.228, 229, 230
The most recent work of Hutchison has yielded the finest descriptions of
mind technologies yet put together. His latest book, Mega Brain Power, updates
readers in an area which is changing so rapidly that the science is being formed faster
than the applications can be fully recognized. As a result, he has for some years
published the latest research in a newsletter. Recent issues231 discussed technologies
for healing nervous system disorders, correcting attention deficit and hyperactive
disorders in children and curing drug and alcohol dependencies among other things.
Electromedicine of this type is emerging as one of the most exciting areas of medical
research.
The research in recent years has extended to medical and psychological
applications with startling positive results. Some of these results have been
recognized by the United States Air Force, as you will see in the following chapter.
Unfortunately, military research continues to look at these technologies as weapon
systems rather than as human potential enhancing tools.
227 Mega Brain Power, by Michael Hutchison, 1994.
228 Super-Learning, by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, 1982.
229 Mega Brain Power, by Michael Hutchison, 1994.
230 Meaa Brain. New Tools and Techniques tor Brain Growth and Mind Expansion, by Michael
Hutchison, 1986.
231 Megabrain Report, The Journal of Optimal Performance, Volume 2, Number 4, 1994.
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One of America's most gifted inventors, Dr. Patrick Flanagan, predicted in
1962 that medicine would change. He said, "I believe some day the entire concept of
medical practice will be changed by electronics. People will be treated electronically
rather than with medicine."232 At that time, Dr. Flanagan had just been recognized
for inventing what was the most advanced brain entrainment device, and possibly
human-to-computer interface, on the planet - the Neurophone.
As Flanagan noted in a recent interview the HAARP project could be not
only the biggest "ionospheric heater" in the world, but also the biggest brainentrainment device ever conceived. According to HAARP records, when the device is
built to full power it can send VLF and ELF waves using many wave forms at energy
levels sufficient to affect entire regional populations.
The HAARP planners have never discussed any of this research, although
the Air Force and Navy have been working in these areas since the early 1960's.
Using the concept of "compartmentalization" and "need-to-know", discussed earlier
in this book, it is highly likely that most of those, if not all of those, involved in
building and operating the HAARP project at this early stage are unaware of these
possible applications.
Dr. Robert O. Becker experimented in the early 1960's with ELF (Extremely
Low Frequencies) by putting the signal on top of a DC current to carry the ELF signal.
In other words, ELF rode like the passenger on a bus, maintaining its own integrity
but being carried, to its specific destination. Dr. Becker tested this concept by using
an ELF, 1-10 Hertz (cycles or pulses per second) signal on humans resulting in an
increased loss of consciousness among test subjects. The weak ELF alone had no
effect, and the DC current had a significantly reduced effect without the combination.
Above 10 Hertz with DC current, the effect increasingly declined until it was no better
than with DC current alone.233 What this demonstrated was that ELF, those
frequencies which most effect human brain functions, could be manipulated externally
with profound results.
Flanagan's Brain Tool
In 1958 when Dr. Patrick Flanagan was 14 years old, he invented the
Neurophone, which won him world recognition as one of the brightest inventors of
our time. The Neurophone device can convert sound (like words and music) into
electrical impulses which can be transferred through any point on the body directly
into the brain, bypassing the ear and associated hearing mechanisms entirely. For
more than six years the United States Patent Office refused to issue a patent for the
device while they debated the fine points of the technology. In the end, the
government declared that the Neurophone would never work, and refused the patent.
Patrick and his lawyer then went to Washington D.C. with a working model of the
device to show the patent examiner. The examiner told the duo that if the device could
make one of their employees who was deaf hear, he would reopen the case and issue
the patent. The device was tested, the employee "heard" and the patent was granted.
232 "Whiz Kid, Hands Down", Life Magazine, September 14, 1962.
233 Cross Currents. The Perils of Electropollution, The Promise of Electromedicine, by Robert o.
Becker, M.D.,pg 227.
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Dr. Flanagan later went to work for Tufts University and began his next
stage of research on the Neurophone, As a research scientist for Tufts, he began to
work on a man to dolphin speech system for the Navy. This research led to the
development of a 3-D holographic sound system which could place sounds in any
location in space as perceived by a listener.
Additional research led to a vastly improved digital Neurophone, for which a
patent application was filed. Immediately, the United States Defense Intelligence
Agency placed it under a secrecy order as a matter of national security. Dr.
Flanagan was forbidden from conducting further research or even talking about his
technology for four years.
This technology has now been replaced with superior technology developed
in Europe in 2001. The technology far surpasses the performance of the Flanagan
invention in all applications by integrating modern circuit designs with 21st century
engineering. The new technology delivers significantly gTeateT eneTgy efficiency
through a more biologically compatible signal. This technology will be made
available in late 2001 or early 2002 for accelerated learning applications, body
system balancing and trials in hearing enhancement applications.
In the years since, Dr. Flanagan periodically toyed with new concept and
design advances for Neurophonic technology. This device could be used as the
ultimate computer to brain interface tool, and is being considered for reintroduction
into the market place. The idea that large amounts of properly formatted information
can be transferred into long term memory would revolutionize education, making the
current model obsolete. Education would shift to greater emphasis on learning
strategies and resources, rather than data accumulation. These changes would
establish greater possibilities for creative advancement and self-actualization by
mastery of intellectual potentials.
The Neurophone was one of the most powerful brain entrainment devices
developed until new advances were made in the science in Europe in 2001. In recent
years, these other researchers have advanced the technology and continued to work on
the possibilities it offers, with an emphasis on other modes of transmission. Given
the Defense Intelligence Agency's interest in the earlier device, it is very likely that
they have also continued to woTk to improve it. Discussions with several inventors
over the last few years about the HAARP project revealed that this radio transmitter,
the ionospheric heater, could possibly be used as a wireless brain entrainment device.
This use has the greatest invasive possibilities.234
Brain Biofeedback
Real time brain biofeedback is another area of brain research which is
beginning to provide great opportunities to many individuals. This area has yielded
new approaches foT gaining control of the mind. Through interactive computer
technologies, it is now possible to monitor brain waves on a real-time basis, so that
234 Discussions with Dr. Patrick and Dr. Gael Crystal Flanagan with Dr. Nick Begich through 199495
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the individual using these tools can see what brain waves graphically look like on a
computer screen, while the person is thinking.
There are several systems now on the market, with one of the finest being
produced in the United States by American Biotech Corporation. Using these
systems, a person can learn to manipulate his or her own brain waves in profound
ways. Some of the things which have been achieved include reaching high meditative
states (states of consciousness not otherwise reached without years of practice),
increasing the recovery rates of brain dysfunctions resulting from strokes or
accidents, and improvements in children suffering from attention deficit and other
disorders.
These new brain technologies are being used to help people with various
problems. A number of researchers have shown the effectiveness of brain biofeedback
in breaking drug and alcohol dependencies. The tools and techniques have been used
for curing a number of mental disorders by teaching a person how to create brain
patterns within themselves, at will, to change their state of consciousness.
Researchers found that within 30 to 60 days most people can learn how to create a
number of specific mental states at will, and without the continued use of these
machines. The machines serve as a bridge to new levels of mental control. The
techniques using the computer interfaces can be explained simply as a system for
teaching how to control one's own thinking in one's own way to gain specific
results. It can be viewed as a small child learning to control his or her legs crawling,
then walking and then running. We, as adults, are still at the crawling stage when it
comes to mental control. These technologies are bringing to us opportunities to take
greater control of ourselves through better control of our minds. The value of this
technology can not be understated.
Changing the way we think, if we are individually in control of our changes,
is a healthy thing. It is disturbing to realize that governments are interested in these
technologies, not for beneficial individual uses but in order to gain increased control
over populations they view as dangerous. These technologies offer both great
promise and a high potential for abuse. Since the technologies are here now, all of
the work in these areas should be open to public review. This would help assure the
preservation of the most fundamental right of humankind, the right to think in our
own way.
The work being done in these fields has profound implications for all of us.
The knowledge held by government agencies, under the guise of national security,
would speed the understanding of these technologies and their implications. If the
government's research were made public, we would have a significant advance into
one of the most import-ant areas of human development. The increased efficient use
of the human brain would make it more likely that we could solve the very complex
problems existing in the world, in addition to improving the quality of life for many
people.
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This chapter introduces readers to some of the concepts which we explored,
and direct readers, who become "compilers" in their own research pursuits, to new
sources. This chapter also amplifies knowledge of energy in various wave forms and
frequencies which can increase rather than destroy human potential. The use and
development of these applications does not need to be imposed on people through
the military's manipulation of the ionosphere or by other external means. These
technological innovations should be chosen by individuals based upon their own
decisions. In the next chapter we begin to explore the military's level of knowledge
and uses of these technologies, based on the work of the Air Force, major universities
and private industry.
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Chapter Twenty-three
PSYCHOCIVILIZED SOCIETY AND THE C.I.A.
This chapter explores a complex subject - the use of electromagnetic waves
for mind manipulation. The material is translated into simpler concepts and can be
understood without a great deal of technical background. One of the main goals of the
authors has been to make these concepts understandable to the layperson.
The idea of HAARP as a system for mind manipulation, some will say, is a
big leap from the ionosphere. For low level military planners, it may well be.
However, after a careful review of the possibilities described in the HAARP contract
documents and planning records, coupled with the array of Air Force materials
gathered by the authors, the possibilities are evident. The HAARP transmitting
system could be used inadvertently or intentionally to alter mental
functions. These next chapters will inform the reader and raise serious questions
regarding what might be hidden behind the HAARP project.
"I foresee the time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably,
the temptation to manipulate the behavior and intellectual functioning of all people
through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain."235 The 1968
New York Times article quoted Dr. David Krech of UC Berkeley, who predicted a new
technology which in the intervening years has become a reality. The work in this
area has moved far beyond what anyone would think was possible a few years ago.
These developments raise profound questions which should be dealt with squarely and
openly, considering their far-reaching implications. Moreover, the use of the
ionosphere as an antenna by the United States or any other country to manipulate in a
military self-serving manner, is probably in violation of international treaties and
should be forbidden by international organizations.
Dr. Jose M. R. Delgado, M.D., has researched the human brain and
published his results in professional papers since 1952. He was educated in Spain and
came to the United States to work at Yale University in 1950. He became a Professor
of Physiology at Yale, where he continued his research work focusing on the control
of the mind. His early work pioneered our understanding of the human brain and was
summarized through 1969 in a book he wrote, called Physical Control of the Mind.
Toward a Psychocivilized Society.236 This early work was mainly animal research,
and included insertion of electrodes into the brains of animals. He found that by
inducing an electrical current in the brain of his subject, he could manipulate
behavior. Delgado discovered that he could create a number of effects from sleep to
highly agitated states of consciousness. His later work was done wirelessly, with his
most advanced efforts developed without electrode implants used at all. Stated
differently, he achieved the brain manipulating effects at a distance, without any
physical contact or devices attached to the living creature being manipulated. Dr.
235 The New York Times, Scientist Says Control of Intelligence Is Possible, by Harold M. Schmeck
Jr., Wednesday, April 3,1968, quoting Dr. David Krech, UC Berkeley.
236 Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society, by Jose M.R. Delgado, M.D.,
1969.
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Delgado found that by changing the frequency and waveform on an experimental
subject, he could completely change their thinking and emotional state.
Dr. Delgado's work set the foundation for many other researchers, while at
the same time opening the possibilities of misuse by the government. On page 229
of Dr. Delgado's book, he uses a quote from the UNESCO's Constitution which, in the
context of his work and this book, is foreboding: "Since war begins in the mind of
men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed."237
It
is a thought, in the context of Delgado's work, which smacks of the Orwellian story,
1984.
In a book about the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) pursuit of mind
control technology, Dr. Delgado's work is also diseussed.238 Dr. Delgado's research
was reviewed in 1969 by Dr. Gottlieb, who worked for the CIA's Office of Research
and Development (OR) while looking for the possible uses of this technology. At
that time, the work was still crude, although the CIA shared Dr. Delgado's vision for
techniques which would allow for a "psychocivilized society".
During this period, a neurosurgeon at Tulane University, Dr. Robert G.
Heath, brought this prospect closer to reality with his work in electrical stimulation
of the brain. As one author recently put it, "Like Dr. Delgado, the neurosurgeon
concluded that ESB (Electrical Stimulation of the Brain) could evoke hallucinations as
well as fear and pleasure. It could literally manipulate the human will at will."239
The CIA's interest in mind control began with the Korean War, during which
the North Koreans demonstrated skills in the area of mind control not previously seen
in the West. The CIA undertook a significant research effort into this area which
extended to numerous related fiascos. Some of these were uncovered in subsequent
scandalous revelations which included Canadian citizens being mentally manipulated
without consent, treatment of thousands of university students and military personnel
with LSD, etc.240
To the CIA, Dr. Delgado's "wireless" effects were thought-provoking. He
discovered that animals could be placed within an electromagnetic field (EMF) and be
manipulated without any physical contact. Moreover, "the fields Delgado uses are as
low as one fiftieth the strength of the Earth's own magnetic fields...yet when the
signal is tuned to precise frequencies, Delgado can do much more than make a monkey
sleepy."241 These technologies are increasingly being recognized by other
researchers, and the data base has reached a level of certainty not understood as little
as ten years ago.
237 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Constitution.
238 Journey into Madness. The True Story or Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse, by
Gordon Thomas. 1989, pges 276-279.
239 Ibid., pg 276.
240 Report to the President bv the Commission on CIA Activities Within The United States. June
1975, pages 225-231.
241 "The Mind Fields", by Kathleen McAuliffe, Omni Magazine, February 1985.
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Today, a number of tools for brain entrainment are even being marketed.
Very sophisticated brain biofeedback devices have also been developed which are
being used to teach individuals to alter their own brain activity to more desirable
states. These devices are being used to help people with various mental dysfunctions,
and others reach higher peak performance mental states. These devices can be likened
to mental gym equipment designed to create individually controlled exercise
programs for the brain, with the outcome being increased mental functioning.
It should be kept in mind that John Heckscher, HAARP program manager,
made clear in an interview that the frequencies and energies used in HAARP were
controllable and in some applications would be pulsed in the 1-20 Hertz range. The
ranges of frequency and energy levels, he also stated, were small, but distinguishable
from the Earth's own pulsations.242 This point was further amplified by Heckscher
when he said, "The ELF/ULF waves to be generated by HAARP through interaction
with the polar electrojet will have power levels so small compared with me existing
background that special integrating receivers wilt have to be used to detect them."243
The issue is one of controlled coherent signals, which as we stated above
can be one fiftieth the energy level of the Earth's natural fields and still have
profound effects on brain activity. The HAARP system creates a huge coherent
controllable electromagnetic field which could be compared to a Delgado EMF, except
HAARP's doesn't fill a room, it potentially fills a region the size of a large western
state and, possibly, a hemisphere. Basically, the HAARP transmitter in this
application will emit energy of the same level as the Earth's which is 50 times more
than was needed in the wireless experiments of Dr. Delgado. What this means is that
if HAARP is tuned to the right frequency, using just the right wave forms, mental
disruption throughout a region could occur intentionally or as a side effect of the radio
frequency transmissions.
Another important factor not thoroughly reviewed in the HAARP documents
is cyclotron resonance. The HAARP signal uses this concept in its radiated energy.
The effect of cyclotron resonance is a large increase in reactions in the ionosphere
and in living organisms on the ground, under certain conditions. Many activities in
living cells involve charged particles, and cyclotron resonance allows for the transfer
of energy to cause ions to move more rapidly. It is cyclotron resonance which allows
very low strength electromagnetic fields, together with earth's magnetic field, to
produce significant biological effects. It occurs because the total effect has an impact
on very specific particles when tuned to the right frequency. When combined with the
Earth's normal magnetic fields, it is important to note, only ELF frequencies (1-100
Hertz, pulses per second) appear to cause these biological effects,
Cyclotron resonance can be visualized as a particle being spun like a coiled
spring and then screwed right through the cell wall into the cell. This effect is one of
the major considerations in electromedicine. To some degree this explains why non242 Interview of John Heckscher, HAARP Program Manager, with Jeane Manning, 2-21-1995.
243 Letter to Mr. Arther Grey, Secretary to the United States Department of Commerce, National
Telecommunications and Information Administration, Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee,
Spectrum Planing Committee, Novembers, 1994.
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ionizing levels of radiation produce the effects they do.244 In other words,
cyclotron resonance provides a condition where a significant interaction can take
place, causing chemical reactions or other physiological responses. The
manipulation of energy, when applied to living systems, can be used for enhancing
the potentials of people or for harming them. It is here where the reactions occur
leading to good, neutral or negative health effects.
The concept of cyclotron resonance was applied to the research carried out
by the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center. They were able to apply external fields in
such a way as to affect the brain chemistry of rats.245 The same effects can be created
in humans. The Navy research showed that they were able to affect the lithium ion,
occurring naturally in the brain, so as to create the same effect as if they had treated
the animal with a chemical introduction of lithium (lithium is used as a strong antidepressant).246 Stated another way, you could say that by harmonizing or resonating
with the frequency of naturally-occurring chemicals, you could amplify their potency
in the body of the animal, thereby creating the same chemical changes as would have
occurred with a massive dose of the chemical being administered.
One military application of this knowledge would be to introduce to
adversaries on the battlefield a minute amount of a chemical compound in their water
supply, air supply or by other means and then (after they consume the contaminants)
transmit the right frequencies toward them to activate the otherwise benign
chemicals. It would cause debilitating effects. The chemical introductions would be
below generally accepted levels for toxic effects, and yet toxic effects would occur.
This is a way a country could slide around international agreements regarding
chemical warfare. This technique has not been lost on the military; it is clearly
understood and described in Air Force documents.247, 248 These documents offer a
clear example of the "electrical medicine" predicted by Dr. Patrick Flanagan in
September, 1962. Unfortunately, the military's applications are being developed for
the wrong purposes. The research base controlled by the United States government
and others is being withheld from those engaged in human development and healing
an unfortunate situation given the current state of the world and human health.
A better application of this technology would be to rebalance peoples'
chemistry using a combination of low levels of chemicals with properly tuned
transmitters. This technique is being applied to healing in Europe and Asia through
electro-laser acupuncture techniques perfected by researchers in those areas. Dr. Reijo
Makela has developed a system of treatment for use in altering body energy levels in
such a way as to induce chemical changes leading to cures of disorders heretofore
considered incurable. Dr. Makela's work involves treatment of cancer, diabetes and
other debilitating diseases. He has lectured throughout Europe and Asia on the
methods he uses and is recognized as a leader in alternative medicine. He has trained a
244 Cross Currents, The Perils of Electropollution. The Promise of Electromedicine. by Robert O.
Becker, M.D., pg 238-237.
245 Ibid.
246 Ibid, pg 236-240.
247 Final Report On Biotechnology Research Requirements For Aeronautical Systems Through the
Year 2000, Volume I, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 1982.
248 Ibid.
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number of technicians in Europe and operates clinics in Spain and Finland. As a result
of his success with over 12,000 patients in twelve years, more than 600 former
patients joined together to form a support organization for Dr. Makela's research.
The idea that a group of patients would come together for such a purpose is unheard of
in the United States.
The HAARP radiated energy pulses, and the wave forms cited in the contract
documents, are within the ranges most cited by research scientists as those
responsible for controlling and manipulating the mind and body. This is an
important factor which the military never discloses in any of its documents
associated with the HAARP project, most particularly the Environmental Impact
Statement.
The effects that Delgado's teams in Spain are studying include behavior
modifying in animals, inhibiting bacterial growth, altering migratory movements in
snails and healing bone fractures in rats. Electromagnetic fields (EMF) have also
produced some effects with significant negative ramifications, including genetic
mutations in fruit flies and gross deformations in chick embryos.249, 250 What this
implies is that these low level effects alter the building blocks of the cells, which
then alter the body components; which then alter the body. This translates into big
problems for people when applied to human physiology. Scientists have known for
some time that high levels of this type of radiation can heat up (ionizing radiation)
the body, but they have assumed that low levels were not a problem. However, the
current research, including military research, indicates that this is not the case. "For
better or worse, weak electromagnetic fields are emerging as a potent biological force
- a discovery with staggering implications for future medicine, science, industry and
perhaps even the military... There is growing concern among experts that EMFs have
been - or will be - deployed as invisible weapons to disrupt brain functioning and
health."25l
The work of Delgado would not be particularly alarming if it were isolated.
However, "animals exposed to radiation from radio waves show subtle changes in
blood cell count, immunity, the nervous system, and behavior, according to a 1984
EPA document."252 The majority of these observed effects were from exposures
which were within the government approved safety thresholds.
Here is where the Office of Naval Research, our "good neighbors" on the
HAARP project, return to the scene. These are the same people that insist that the
HAARP project is safe and is operating within the safety levels determined to be safe
for humans by the government. However, United States safety levels are 1000
times LESS strict than the Soviets, which raises the question of why the United
States standards are so low and what the Soviets observed to convince them that
safety considerations required their higher standards.
249 The Mind Fields", by Kathleen McAuliffe, Omni Magazine, February 1985.
250 Cross Currents. The Perils of Electropollution. The Promise of Electromedicine, by Robert O.
Becker, M.D., pg 210.
251 "The Mind Fields", by Kathleen McAuliffe, Omni Magazine, February 1985.
252 Ibid.
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The Navy supported an international research effort to duplicate Delgado's
chick embryo experiments by initiating Project Henhouse, which involved six
laboratories. In 1988, the results were reported in a meeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society with five of the six laboratories reporting "apparently, very lowlevel, very low frequency, pulsed magnetic fields contribute to increased abnormality
incidence in early embryonic chicks."253 This study which was paid for with Naval
resources showed that low levels of radiation could cause health problems.
The Navy is aware of all of the global research going on in the area of nonionizing (non heat producing) radiations. The Office of Naval Research has been
collecting published scientific reports on the biological effects of non-ionizing
electromagnetic radiation, and publishing a compiled set of abstracts, since 1974.
This set of abstracts, in digest form, has grown to the point where over a thousand
papers are listed each year.254 These scientific papers show differing results, and can
be selectively used to make any number of points which might be positive, neutral or
negative. The point made here is that the HAARP folks reduced this huge body
of
research to a couple of lines in the Environmental Impact Statement, which is wholly
inadequate, considering the power levels to be employed with their "ionospheric
heater".
The analogy can be made about the old story that a good lawyer can argue
any point from either side and win by selecting the right citations. It is no different
for the HAARP planners. They can selectively choose the research needed to
demonstrate that there are no ill effects from their radio frequency transmitter and
then, across the country on another project, select the research they want to show the
opposite effect, in order to gain funding for a new weapon. In the case of HAARP,
there are potential negative effects which are not being disclosed.
A neuroscientist at the Loma Linda, California, Veterans Administration
Hospital, Dr. Ross Adey, has demonstrated that the brain waves of animals can be
manipulated. He has shown that they can be locked in phase with external pulsating
waves, which thereby affect subtle changes in behavior including enhanced learning.
He has further demonstrated, in work with Dr. Suzanne Bawin, that fields too weak to
trigger a nerve impulse can alter the way calcium ions bind to cell surfaces, causing an
array of chemical reactions within the cell itself.255 What this means is that the kind
of chemical changes which are needed to cause alterations in thinking or health can
he started by very small amounts of controlled power, through understood and
manipulatable means. This point is extremely important when contemplating the
HAARP technologies.
Adey is also the only U.S. scientist to test a Russian machine which
generates pulsed radio frequencies. Combined with other stimuli, it has been reported
253 Cross Currents. The Perils of Electropollution. The Promise ot Electromedicine. by Robert O.
Becker, M.D., pg 210.
254 Ibid, pg 214.
255 "The Mind Fields", by Kathleen McAuliffe, Omni Magazine, February 1985.
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to induce deep sleep. When interviewed, Adey acknowledged that the device worked,
but refused to comment on the United States military's use of this technology.256,
257
A lengthy article in the Wall Street Journal discussed the direction of the
military in the development of what they were calling, at the time, "non-lethal"
weapons. The article explored the use of anew class of weapons which could be used
to disrupt communications, radars and other electronic equipment. In the article,
retired Lt. General Richard Trefry, a military advisor to President Bush, said, "They're
all real." he then went on to say, "But you're bordering on classified stuff here."258
The article described a series of new developments leading to these technologies
which did not exist ten years before. Time schedules for the development of these
technologies had been established in 1982, with the systems expected to be ready for
use in the early to middle 1990's.259 One of the major contributors to the
"nonlethal" effort was John Alexander, mentioned in Chapter Two, who had written
an earlier article for Military Review magazine about "the new mental battlefield".
The article described the emerging technologies for use in telepathic weapons and
systems which would interfere with the brain's electrical functioning. This article
caught the attention of the military, who began to research this area.
John Alexander was one of the prime movers in the advanced development
of nonlethal systems, from his office at Los Alamos National Laboratories. He
pursued his interests in obscure science and parapsychology, connecting with Janet
Morris with whom he wrote a book on mind training techniques.260 In putting the
book together, she recruited Ray Cline, a former deputy director of the CIA, who
opened doors to the White House and Pentagon according to a Wall Street Journal
article.261 The use of the technologies was apparently known by Alexander to be
problematic, because some of the weapon systems would violate international
agreements. Moreover, individuals began to raise concerns suggesting that the use of
"nonlethals" might cause escalation, rather than control, of volatile conflicts.
The Pentagon's nonlethal study group concluded that a major effort should
be made to develop these technologies, and suggested that President Bush announce a
new initiative in this area similar to President Reagan's announcement of the
Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars"),262
Military officials objected that such a "new initiative" announcement might
have the effect of spurring other governments and possible adversaries to develop
their own new systems and that it might cause policy makers to begin "political
256 The Mind Fields", by Kathleen McAuliffe, Omni Magazine, February 1985.
257 Resonance, Newsletter of the Bioelectromagnetics SIG, Number 28, May 1995, Judy Wall,
Editor, 684 C.R. 535, Sumtervilte, Florida, USA. (This is a special Interest Group of M.E.N.S.A.)
258 The Wall Street Journal, "Nonlethal Arms, New Class of Weapons Could Incapacitate Foe Yet
Limit Casualties, by Thomas E. Ricks, January 4, 1993, page A1 and A4.
259 Final Report On Biotechnology Research Requirements For Aeronautical Systems Through the
Year 2000. Volumes I and II, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 1982.
260 The Wall Street Journal, "Nonlethal Arms, New Class of Weapons Could Incapacitate Foe Yet
Limit Casualties, by Thomas E. Ricks, January 4, 1993, page A1 and A4.
261 Ibid.
262 Ibid.
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meddling" into this militarily promising area. These military objections drove the
program into even more layers of secrecy, and Janet Morris and Ray Cline were cut
out of the inner circle. The policy makers then decreed that the nonlethal
technologies would be referred to in softer terms as "disabling systems" in the
future.263
The new technology race was already on, and it appeared America's
"adversaries" may have already made significant advances in the development of new
weapon systems. The limits for microwaves were set in the United States 1,000 times
higher than the level considered safe in the former Soviet Union. The reason that the
Soviets set their safety standard as high as they did was because they detected
biological effects at levels ignored by the West.264,265 The Russians abandoned the
thermal model that the U.S. Military ascribed to when setting American standards in
the 1950's (standards were subsequently adopted by civilian regulators).
The thermal model only acknowledges heating effects as potentially
debilitating, and disregards the lower level radiations which also have significant
effects when interacting with the fields of living things. The Soviets showed that
electromagnetic fields, well within the U.S. "safety" standards, could disrupt heart
rhythms, blood pressure and metabolism. In addition, Soviet scientist A.S. Presman
said these fields can produce "visual, acoustic, and tactile sensations in man as well as
emotional states in animals, (inducing everything) from suppressed states similar to
narcosis to excited states reaching epilepsy."266 Presman went on to discuss the
pronounced negative impact on creatures, from the embryonic stage up to the
beginning of sexual maturity. The idea that genetic alteration could be caused by
low-level electromagnetic fields causing deformation, death or other debilitating
effects was the problem. The lack of mainstream medical understanding, beyond that
found in leading edge research facilities, was the underlying barrier to recognizing the
risks. What all of this means is that real damage to living things, including
people, is likely being done by use of transmitters like HAARP. While on the other
hand, if we gained a better understanding of these non-thermal levels of energy
positive applications could be more widely used.
The Beam Team
From the 1960's through the 1970's, there were news and intelligence
reports of microwave beams being directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. There
are some indications that beaming of the Embassy was also conducted as late as
1983. This beaming has been the subject of much speculation over the years.
The government has not released the full story, and for the most part it
remains
263 The Wail Street Journal, "Nonlethal Arms, New Class ot Weapons Could Incapacitate Foe Yet
Limit Casualties, by Thomas E. Ricks, January 4,1993, page A1 and A4..
264 "The Mind Fields", by Kathleen McAuliffe, Omni Magazine, February 1985.
265 Low-Intensity,Conflict and Modern Technology, Lt Col. David J. Dean USAF, Editor, Air
University Press, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base,
Alabarna, June 1986.
266"The Mind Fields", by Kathleen McAuliffe, Omni Magazine, February 1985.
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classified.267, 268 Speculated effects of the radiation include health impairment and
mind manipulation,269 Beginning in 1965, the government tested embassy
personnel for genetic damage which may have been caused by the microwave
beaming. At the same time, they launched operation Pandora, where monkeys were
exposed to the same type of signals in order to measure the effects
While government representatives have maintained that there were no ill
affects from the microwaves, the results of the embassy personnel testing and
Pandora remain classified.270 Even though the impact of Russian microwave
radiation is unclear, it turns out that there may very well have been some effect. When
Dr. Gottlieb, the MKULTRA program director for the CIA, testified to the United
States Congress, he said that when President Nixon went to the USSR in 1971
members of his party showed abnormal behavior including crying and depression.
The spy community already knew that the Soviets had developed microwave beaming
technologies which can affect mind, memory and health. Soviet research had already
shown that it was also possible to create hallucinations and significant perceptual
changes in people.271
The CIA's use of mind altering technologies is not new. Under MKULTRA,
the CIA conducted memory experiments on thousands of unknowing people across
the United States in 180 hospitals, research centers and prisons. The CIA used LSD
and other drugs, brainwashing, sensory deprivation, hypnosis and many other mind
control techniques until 1976 when the United States Senate investigated these
practices.272, 273, 274 It appears the names of the programs and their approaches
changed but the programs may have continued beyond 1976.275
Meanwhile the Soviets had moved way ahead of the United States in their
development of mind war technologies. They had perfected a device called the Lida
which produced an Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) pulsing field. Lida was used to put
prisoners of war into trance, so that secrets could be extracted from them more
readily. As mentioned earlier, this device was tested by Dr. Ross Adey in the United
States at the Loma Linda VA Hospital. The Soviets went on to discover that by slight
manipulation - by reversing brain polarity (by passing very low voltage current
through the front of the brain to me back) - they could induce deep sleep. Mounting
evidence also indicated that they may have perfected "telepathic hypnosis" which
could be deployed from hundreds of miles away from the target person.276
267 Cross Currents, The Perils of Electropollution, The Promise of Electromedicine. by Robert O.
Becker, M.D.
268 Super-Memory- The Revolution, by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder,1991.
269 Ibid.
270 The Mind Fields", by Kathleen McAuliffe, Omni Magazine, February 1985.
271 Super-Memory- The Revolution, by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, 1991, pges. 298-299.
272 Journev into Madness. The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse, by
Gordon Thomas, 1989
273 Super-Memory' The Revolution, by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder,1991, pges. 292-304,
274 Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities Within The United States. June
1975, pages 225-231,
275 Journey Into Madness. The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse, by
Gordon Thomas, 1989.
276 Super-Memory- The Revolution, by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder,1991, pges. 292-304,
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The Soviets took their technologies a huge jump forward by 1975. It was
that year that they began using seven giant radio transmitters to pulse ELF waves in
the 3.26 to 17.54 megaHertz range. These waves were pulsed at 6 and 11 Hertz- key
brain wave rhythms - and became known to ham radio operators as the "woodpecker"
signal. The story, like the HAARP story, indicated that these were used for
communication with submarines, but many believe that the negative side effects were
intentional.277 These "side effects" have been speculated to have caused
communications interference, power failures, mood alterations over significant
distances, affecting a large percentage of the population and weather modifications
which have had a devastating effect on food production since the 1970's.278
A brilliant electrophysiologist, Dr. Makela studied physics and chemistry
in 1953-59, followed by a two year study in psychology and additional studies in
electrophysiology. He continued his education with advanced studies in Western and
Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and has practiced medicine as either a research
scientist or physician for over forty years.
During a 1994 visit with Dr. Makela, Dr. Nick Begich discussed the HAARP
project. The idea that the HAARP system could be used as a transmitting system for
brain entrainment was explored, and it reminded Dr. Makela of a number of devices
with whose features he was familiar. The idea that HAARP could create various wave
forms across a large segment of the electromagnetic spectrum was of concern,
considering the health risks. This system had the possibility of being misused, and
the risks had not been well defined. Inadvertently there could also be negative health
effects if the operators were unaware of the consequences of pulsed electromagnetic
radiations in the wave forms they were using - waves which were being bounced back
to the earth from the ionosphere.
In particular, when reviewing the HAARP materials, Dr. Makela was
reminded of a particular device which was marketed for a short time in Japan. This
device was a radio transmitter which carried a pulsed wave {6-12 Hertz). The pulses
were in resonance with the radio waves, so that the radio waves acted as a carrier wave
to create the desired effect. The device was used to relax or focus attention. The effect
was created wirelessly and at a distance.279 It should be remembered that a United
States military representative has already acknowledged that they intend to use
HAARP to transmit pulsed radio frequency radiation (which we assert, if modulated in
just the right way and with the right wave form, could cause serious negative health
effects on people and animals). HAARP specifications call for a very versatile set of
parameters280 which can do what has otherwise only been demonstrated in the
laboratory or under other controlled conditions disrupt minds and create negative
health effects.
277 Super-Memory- The Revolution, by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder,1991, pges. 299- 302.
278' ibid.
Dr. Nick Begich visits and conversations with Dr. Reijo Makela in Finland, November 1994.
280 Office of Naval Research, Contract Number N00014-92-C-0210, ARCO Power Technologies
Incorporated as Contractors, September 16, 1992 with Amendments through October 19,1993.
279
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The United States military is very familiar with these technologies. Captain
Paul Tyler was the director of the U.S. Navy's Electromagnetic Radiation Project from
1970 through 1977. He was quoted in a February 1985 Omni article about the effects
of electromagnetic radiations. He concluded that effects which could be stimulated
chemically could also be stimulated electrically. "With the right electromagnetic
field, for example, you might be able to produce the same effects as psychoactive
drugs."281 The ideas first kicked around by the CIA and early researchers were now
being pursued by the military for use in controlling human behavior - a prospect of
profound implications.
Another player in this seemingly-disconnected group was Arthur Guy. Under
contract to the United States Air Force, he helped compile the Radiofrequency
Radiation Dosimetry Handbook. The book is the only one of its kind that explores a
number of areas required for the development of weapon systems. In that publication,
Guy's work from the University of Washington was described. At the University of
Washington he exposed rats to low levels of electromagnetic radiation. The effect of
these exposures included immunological stress and increases in the formation of
tumors - four times the rate of unexposed animals. This study produced negative
effects at radiation levels twenty times below the established United States safety
thermal level!282
The research in non-thermal effects is being conducted throughout the
world. In Germany, the Deutsche Forschungsgemein-schaft - the equivalent of the
American Academy of Sciences - announced their research results concerning ELF.
They concluded that "nonthermal effects due to EMF exposures can be triggered in
living cells under selected conditions." Reportedly, their research in these areas
would continue.283
This chapter has shown that the state of the technology in the
understanding of human physiology continues to advance at a very rapid rate. The
result has been the discovery of effects not previously known or well understood. The
controversy which still surrounds these areas is not so much one of "does it or doesn't
it work", but more about widespread ignorance of the impact of energy fields which
surround all life.
Scientists in various fields tend to specialize. Moreover, basic
research is delayed - sometimes for decades - in being integrated into applied
technologies. This occurs largely because old standards die hard and new
breakthroughs in knowledge are slowly applied. New research takes many years to
migrate from the high-tech defense laboratories to the practicing physician. In the
interim, the military has free rein to use these new technologies for weapon systems
rather than healing systems.
281 "The Mind Fields", by Kathleen McAuliffe, Omni Magazine, February 1985.
282 Cross Currents. The Perils of Electropollution. The Promise of Electromedicine. by Robert O.
Becker, M.D., pges 194-197,
283 German Workshop on Mechanisms of EMF Interactions, Microwave News,
November/December, 1991.
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Chapter Twenty-four
ZAPPING THE "NONLETHAL" WAY
The area of "nonlethal" technologies has in recent years gained increased
public attention. The various agencies of the federal government for over a decade
gradually increased public releases regarding this technology. The "sensitizing" of
people to the acceptance of these new weapons has slowly worked its way into open
view. Introducing these technologies has been carefully orchestrated to avoid
"change shock" and to increase the probability of public acceptance.
The possibilities offered to the defense, justice and intelligence
communities in "nonlethal" systems development were enthusiastically embraced by
the various agencies, Eldon Byrd of the Naval Surface Weapons Center was
commissioned in 1981 and 1982, to investigate the potential for developing
electromagnetic devices which could be used as 'non-lethal' weapons for riot control,
hostage removal, embassy security and other clandestine operations. Byrd concluded
that remote manipulation of the mind was feasible. Funding was discontinued in 1982
as far as the public knows. It is more likely that this type of research was classified
and moved to other facilities and to new researchers284 in the "black" world of hidden
research projects. This type of technology would not advance beyond the concept
stage without becoming a "black" project based on "national security" assertions by
the military.
The Nonlethal Conference
In 1986, the United States' attorney general held a conference on the
development of these new high-tech weapons. It was summarized the following
year285 in a report discussing problems and solutions for what was believed to be an
area with significant future possibilities. Several areas were reported to offer new
possibilities for the Department of Justice.
The Department of Justice's report disclosed that:
"Participants also discussed the use of various wave lengths and forms of
administration of electromagnetic energy as a non-lethal weapon. A substantial
amount of preliminary research has been conducted in this area...One conference
participant noted that scientific knowledge of human physiology is progressing to the
point where it may soon be possible to target specific physiologic systems with
specific
frequencies of electromagnetic radiation to produce much more subtle and fine-tuned
effects than those produced by photic driving."
Photic driving is the use of visible light pulsed at frequencies which have
been shown to impact the brain. In some people they cause epileptic seizures. The
report went on:
284 "The Mind Fields", by Kathleen McAuliffe, Omni Magazine, February 1985.
285 Report on the Attorney General's Conference on Less Than Lethal Weapons, by Sherri
Sweetman, March 1987, U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.
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"There is some evidence (and a good deal of supposition) that sustained,
extremely low frequency (ELF) radiation can produce nausea or disorientation, One
researcher has subjected animals to ELF electromagnetic radiation through electrode
implants, and feels that similar results could be produced from afar, without
electrodes. One participant suggested that ideally, one might like to develop the ability
to design these electromagnetic fields for specialized use, for instance to produce
sleep or confusion. It is known that sleep can be induced by electrodes in the brain, and
Russian scientists claim to be able to produce sleep from afar (electrosleep). "286
What these conference participants were referring to was the work conducted
by Dr. Jose Delgado of Yale University and the Russian Lida machine tested by Dr.
Adey, referenced earlier.
Los Alamos and Friends
The report on the Department of Justice's 1986 conference also noted, "The
nature of weapons to be tested and the necessity for the tests must not be a secret of
the kind whose 'leak' would result in an exaggerated expose and associated public
outcry." The report went on to recognize that the military had made a number of
advances in these areas but that these advances were classified. It also recommended
that the military should develop the technologies for less than lethal weapons,
because defense contracts were large and technically sophisticated enough to do the
job.
The concern about open investigation must have been lain aside when the
true extent of the military advancements were eventually realized. The idea of an open
discussion of these emerging areas was abandoned to the shadowy world of secrecy
and hidden agendas. The next major conference where the military unveiled its new
technologies to the Justice Department was classified and not open to the press or
public.287 That which was to be open had become buried in secrecy by some of the
same people who limited access to knowledge in the past. The public outcry they
sought to avoid is now justifiably being made by many opposed to such weapons.
In November, 1993 about 400 scientists gathered at John Hopkins
University Applied Physics Lab to discuss their work in developing non-lethal
weapons technologies, including radiofrequency radiation (RF), electromagnetic
pulse (EMP), ELF fields, lasers and chemicals. The meeting was classified, and no
detailed reports were ever publicly released.288 According to the press statements and
the conference agenda (which was released) the programs developing the
technologies had made significant advances, Enough advancement had been made to
establish a secrecy veil and classify the conference. This conference took the whole
program of nonlethal weapons a step forward by bringing the leading experts
together for this event. The conference was sponsored by Los Alamos National
Laboratory and focused on both military and law enforcement uses for these
286 Report on me Attorney General's Conference on Less Than Lethal Weapons, by Sherri
Sweetman, March 1987, U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.
287 The Wall Street Journal, "Nonlethal Arms, New Class of Weapons Could Incapacitate Foe Yet
Limit Casualties, by Thomas E. Ricks, January 4,1993, page A1 and A4.
288 Microwave News November/December 1993, Military on Nonlethal Weapons: 'A very Attractive
Option'.
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technologies. Dr. Edward Teller and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno were the
scheduled keynote speakers at the conference, although Reno was unable to
attend.289 (The same Dr. Teller, "father of the H-bomb", had sold the use of
thermonuclear weapons to make deep water ports in Alaska in the early 1960's,
promoted a Star Wars weapons system for the North Slope of Alaska in the late
1980's, and was now the cheerleader for nonlethal electromagnetics.)
Dr. Clay Easterly of Oak Ridge National Laboratories led a session on
ELF/EMFs. "My major point was that there seem to be some biological sensitivities
or responses to ELF fields that could be useful for nonlethal technology." He could
not discuss the specific applications because the information was classified by the
military. He went on to say that the military was interested in the use of non ionizing
(non thermal) radiation which could be used for disabling enemy electronics,
although his presentation dealt with uses which would affect people.290 This again
demonstrates the level of knowledge which the military ignores in HAARP
disclosures to the public - potential uses or risks associated with the generation of
ELF radiations over large areas of Alaska and eventually, the planet.
A number of papers were presented at the conference, and gave the latest
information on applied technologies in this area. Dr. Henry Brisker from the U.S.
Army Research Laboratory presented work dealing with High Power Microwave
Technology, while Dr. George Baker of the Defense Nuclear Agency, presented a
paper titled "RF Weapons: A Very Attractive Nonlethal Option".
What is obvious from the number of participants and the scope of the
subject matter is that the development of these ideas in new military hardware did not
just arrive on the scene but rather, had been a part of the military agenda for some
time. The current emphasis on these technologies reflects the level of interest of the
government, and the increased visibility the government is giving these areas
indicates an intention to use these systems in a more open manner.291 It is common
practice to let things like these types of technological advances come out in small
bits in order to "test the waters" of public opinion. In this way the population can be
co-opted into accepting greater levels of intrusion by governmental agencies. The
idea is to indoctrinate by being taught to believe, Tather than being given all of the
facts so that a prudent person could think about the issues and make reasoned
decisions. The contrast can be better stated as; "propaganda -versus- persuasion by
reason".
These technologies extend beyond the Air Force, CIA and Navy. "The U.S.
Army has its own product - a radiofrequeney (RF) weapon. In the August 24, 1987 issue
of Defense News, John Rosado of Harry Diamond Labs in Adephi, MD, is quoted as
saying that 'the nature of warfare will be completely changed by the use of (RF)
weapons." Rosado also noted that RF radiation could be used over a wide battlefield
259 Microwave News November/December 1993, Military on Nonlethal Weapons: 'A very Attractive
Option'.
290 Ibid.
291 Non-Lethal Defense, a classified Conference sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory,
November 16-17,1993.
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with phased arrays... ".292 A phased array antenna system is what HAARP uses to
send its signals to the ionosphere.
From Adversaries to Allies
Now that the "Cold War" is over and there is increased cooperation between
the superpowers and former foes, Russian and American scientists have begun
cooperating in a number of research efforts including electromagnetics. The Soviet
counterpart to Los Alamos National Laboratory, Arzamas-16 located east of Moscow,
has begun collaborating with the U.S.A.
In the early 1990's, the two tabs worked together on research regarding "an
electromagnetic super generator capable of creating a pulse of electrical power greater
than any found in nature." A second test was planned for "America's only similar
pulsed power program", located at Los Alamos National Laboratory.293 The nuclear
detonations in the upper atmosphere which were once used to create electromagnetic
pulses could now be created using the technology developed in the Eastlund patents.
Electromagnetic pulse weapons also are the subject of ongoing research
into new "nonlethal" systems. These types of systems present the greatest
challenges and risks to health. HAARP represents more than an experimental
atmospheric physics device. It has the potential for profound and far reaching effects
by delivering dangerous electromagnetic pulses (BMP).
The Russian "non-lethal" or perhaps more accurately, the lethal
technologies, were discussed in a 1993 article. It discloses the Cold War development
of a device called a "gyrotron", which was designed to "sweep the sky of Western
warplanes" by using high energy micro-waves. The article described this weapon as
being able to cleanse the atmosphere of chemicals which cause ozone depletion. In
developing the weapon system, the Russians discovered that this technology could
be used to help the ozone problem or otherwise alter the chemical composition of the
upper atmosphere294.
The technology designed to sweep the sky of warplanes has the same use
envisioned by Nikola Tesla in the 1940's when he offered his technology to the
United States government. Further, Eastlund described how his patents could be used
to alter the chemical composition of the ionosphere, including adding ozone or
destroying other selected chemicals.
The gyrotron described in the article was developed as one of the
"woodpecker" radio transmitters, and works on the same principles as the Western
devices. During the Cold War, the Russians' work was much more advanced than the
work being done in the United States. Scientists from Russia are now collaborating
with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on these projects.
292 Microwave News, May/June, 1988.
293 "From Russia with Love...at Los Alamos?, Intelligence Report, Parade Special Supplement,
1993?
294 "Calif.'s Livermore Weighs Plan to Use Russian Technology", by Tom Schmitz, The Journal of
Commerce, April 8, 1993.
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From National Defense to the Justice Department
On July 21, 1994, Dr. Christopher Lamb, Director of Policy Planning,
issued a draft Department of Defense directive which would establish a policy for nonlethal weapons. The policy was intended to take effect January 1, 1995, and formally
connected the military's non-lethal research to civilian law enforcement agencies.
The government's plan to vise pulsed electromagnetic and radio frequency
systems as a nonlethal technology for domestic Justice Department use rings the
alarm for some observers. Nevertheless, the plan for integrating these systems is
moving forward. Coupling these uses with expanded military missions is even more
disturbing. This combined mission raises additional constitutional questions for
Americans regarding the power of the federal government.295
In interviews with members of the Defense Department the development of
this policy was corrfirmed.296 In those February 1995, discussions, it was
discovered that these policies were internal to agencies and were not subject to any
public review process.
In its current draft form, the policy gives highest priority to development of
those technologies most likely to get dual use, i.e. law enforcement and military
applications. According to this document, non-lethal weapons are to be used on the
government's domestic "adversaries". The definition of "adversary" has been
significantly enlarged in the policy:
"The term 'adversary' is used above in its broadest sense, including those
who are not declared enemies but who are engaged in activities we wish to stop. This
policy does not preclude legally authorized domestic use of the nonlethal weapons by
United States military forces in support of taw enforcement."297
This allows use of the military in actions against the citizens of the country
that they are supposed to protect. This policy statement begs the question; who are
the enemies that are engaged in activities they wish to stop, what are those activities,
and who will make the decisions to stop these activities?
An important aspect of non-lethal weapon systems is that the name nonlethal is intentionally misleading. The Policy adds, "It is important that the public
understand that just as lethal weapons do not achieve perfect lethality, neither will
'non-lethal' weapons always be capable of precluding fatalities and undesired
collateral damage",298 In other words, you might still destroy property and kill
people with the use of these new weapons.
295 Department of Defense Directive, Policy for Non-Lethal Weapons, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense, Draft July 21, 1994.
296 Interviews in late February by Nick Begich.
297 Department of Defense Directive, Poiicy for Non-Lethal Weapons, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense, Draft July 21,1994.
298 Ibid.
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Pentagon officials said they would like to get $41 million in 1995, for
developing these weapons which include their electromagnetic pulse systems.299
This "meager" sum has a good deal of reach, because it is for implementing already
understood technology, for building prototype weapons out of mostly "off the shelf
parts. The only challenge would be putting them together. The basic research for
these technologies was done with "black budget" money. (These are funds which are
so secret even the Congress does not know how the money will be spent, behind
which organizations like the CIA, government laboratories run by the military and
other intelligence organizations, hide their programs.) The Pentagon actually
received $50 million to be used jointly with the Department of Justice in developing
these "non-lethal" weapons.300
In press statements, the government continues to downplay the risks
associated with such systems, even though the lethal potential is described in context
of their own usage policy. In Orwellian double speak, what is nonlethal can be lethal.
The development of these technologies is being jointly managed by the
Non-Lethal Weapons Steering Committee, which is co-chaired by the Undersecretary
of Defense for Acquisition and Technology and the Office of the Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict.301 This crystallizes
the new Justice Department and Department of Defense alliance for future law
enforcement and military initiatives, in the United States.
The weaving together of Department of Defense missions with civilian
Department of Justice missions is unprecedented. Not since the Civil War has the
military machinery - except in very limited riot control actions - been turned
against United States citizens. The idea of using these dangerous and intrusive
systems is counter to good public policy. This raises serious questions regarding use
of our Department of Defense for domestic police actions, which may be a violation
of constitutional law by being in conflict with the narrowly-defined federal use of the
military "for the national defense".
International Alarm Bells Begin to Sound
Questions are not just being raised by the authors of this book, they are
being raised by the International Committee of the Red Cross. In their report from
mid-1994,302 a number of points were raised.
The idea of "war without death" was not new but began in the I950's,
according to the report. The military interest in these systems dealt with chemical
weapons, later advancing to radiation weapons. The report looked at the
ramifications of international law regarding use of these new technologies. It pointed
299 The wall street Journal, "Nonlethal Arms, New Class of Weapons Could Incapacitate Foe Yet
Limit Casualties, by Thomas E. Ricks, January 4,1993, page A1 and A4.
300 Warren Hough, "High-Tech Civilian Control Studied; Secret Pentagon - DoJ Memo of
Understanding, 'Non-lethal' weapons under development, are being added to the government arsenal
in its war against its own citizens.", The Spotlight, July 31, 1995.
301 Perry Plans to Launch Nonlethal Warfare Effort, Defense News September 19-25, 1994.
302 "Expert Meeting on Certain Weapon Systems and on Implementation Mechanisms in
International Law", Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland,
May 30 - June 1, 1994. Issued July 1994.
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out weaknesses in the international conventions regarding the use of chemical
weapons:
"Therefore, when the Convention (Chemical Weapons Convention) comes
into force next year, activities involving them - activities such as development,
production, stockpiling and use - will become illegal, unless their purpose is a
purpose that is expressly not prohibited under the Convention. One such purpose is
'law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes'303 Unfortunately, the
Convention does not define what it means by law enforcement' (whose law? what law?
enforcement where? by whom?), though it does define what it means by 'riot control
agent', namely 'any chemical...which can produce rapidly in humans sensory irritation
or disabling physical effects which disappear within a short time following
termination of exposure'. Stales parties are enjoined 'not to use riot control agents as
a method of warfare' ". 304
In other words, we can use on our own citizens what we cannot use in warfare
with real enemies who are threats to national security. This explains why the
development of nonlethals has moved out of the Department of Defense into the
Department of Justice. For the Department of Defense to continue to work on these
weapons, as instruments of war, is now illegal under international law. The Red
Cross report went on to discuss the shift from weapons of war to police tools which
they called - "riot control agents".
What does this mean for Americans? This places Americans, and citizens of
other counties, in a lesser protected class than individuals seeking to destroy our
counties - our real adversaries. This language really represents a way for countries to
continue to develop these weapons. This is a loop hole in the agreement. So
while the treaty looks good on the surface, it is hollow rhetoric underneath.
In another section of the report, "Future Weapons Using High Power
Microwaves" are discussed at length. This section describes microwave frequencies,
for HAARP developed for use in weapons against machines and people.
One of the uses described is an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon which
gives an operator the same ability to wipe out electronic circuits as a nuclear blast
would provide. The main difference is that this new technology is controllable,
and can be used without violating nuclear weapons treaties.
This section of the report then described energy levels needed for the
following to occur:
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"Overheats and damages animal tissue."
Possibly affects nervous system."
303 Chemical Weapons Convention, Article II 9(d).
304 "Expert Meeting on Certain Weapon Systems and on Implementation Mechanisms in
International Law", Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland,
May 30 - June 1, 1994. Issued July 1994.
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* "Threshold for microwave hearing."
* "Causes bit errors in unshielded computers."
* "Burns out unprotected receiver diodes in antennas."
The effects are based on radio frequency radiation being pulsed "between 10
and 100 pulses per second". The report confirmed that non-thermal effects were being
researched. These non-thermal effects included damage to human health when the
effects occurred "within so-called modulation frequency windows (10 Hertz is one such
window305) or power density windows306".
The way these weapons work was clearly described when the report noted
their effect on machines:
"A HPM (High Power Microwave) weapon employs a high power, rapidly
pulsating microwave beam that penetrates electronic components. The pulsing action
internally excites the components, rapidly generating intense heat which causes them
to fuse or melt, thus destroying the circuit."
Tesla described his speed of light system as being able to melt aircraft
hundreds of miles away. The Red Cross report echoes Tesla:
"HPM (weapons) attack at the speed of light thus making avoidance of the
beam impossible, consequently negating the advantage of weapon systems such as
high velocity tactical missiles."
In other words, with this kind of weapon there is no machine which could
get by this invisible wall of directed energy. HAARP sets in motion the beginning of
a system which could have these effects over the entire world.
In the last section of the report, the power levels that the Red Cross expects
by the end of the decade are set at 100,000,000,000 watts307 - the same 100
gigawatt level "desired" by HAARP planners.308
Another report on non-lethal technologies, issued by the Council on
Foreign Relations points out that, "The Nairobi Convention, to which the United
States is a signatory, prohibits the broadcast of electronic signals into a sovereign
state without its consent in peacetime. "309
305 Discussion with Dr. Patrick Flanagan on August 2, 1995 (by co-author Begich).
306 "Expert Meeting on Certain Weapon Systems and on Implementation Mechanisms in
International Law", Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland,
May 30 - June 1, 1994. Issued July 1994.
307 "Expert Meeting on Certain Weapon Systems and on Implementation Mechanisms in
International law", Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland,
May 30 - June 1, 1994. Issued July 1994.
308 PL/GP Technical Memorandum No. 195; "Presentations from the HAARP Workshop on
Ionospheric Heating Diagnostics, 30 April - 2 May 1991, Phillips Laboratory (AFSC), Hanscom AFB,
MA. 01731-5000"; Editor, Major Drew Fisher; October 22,1991.
309 "Non-Lethal Technologies; Military Options and implications", Report of an Independent Task
Force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Malcom H. Weiner, Chairman, released June
22, 1995.
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This report opens discussion of the use of these weapons against terrorists
and drug traffickers.310 The CFR report recommends that this be done secretly so that
the victims do not know where the attack is from, or if there even is an attack. There
is a problem with this approach. The use of these weapons, even against these kinds
of individuals, may be in violation of United States law in that it presumes guilt
rather than innocence. In other words the police, CIA, DEA or other enforcement
organization becomes the judge, jury and executioner.
The Universal Tool - HAARP
In a summary document produced at Maxwell Air Force Base, the real
potentials of these weapon applications for the universal military tool, HAARP, are
described. Although the HAARP literature produced by the military is silent on the
topics discussed below, the Air Force showed, by this publication, that they are well
aware of the potential use of a transmitting system like HAARP. More importantly
politically is the "Newt Gingrich spin" placed on the development efforts in the
foreword, by today's Speaker of the House, to the military's report on this subject.
The foreward to Low-intensity Conflict and Modern Technology was written
by Congressman Newt Gingrich in 1986 before he rose to the position of Speaker.
This position makes him currently the third most powerful person in the United
States government. Gingrich's views on "low intensity conflicts" become relevant
when considered along with the development of non-lethal technology. He focuses
on creating approaches to conflict which can dispense with radicals who, in his
words, "engage quietly in dirty little wars in faraway places with almost no regard for
legal nicety or the technical problems of international law".311
The ability of the United States to meet these challenges is also discussed in
the loreword as Gingrich wrote:
"The organization of power in the State and Defense Departments and the
relationships between Congress, the news media, and the executive branch are all
unsuited to fighting low-intensity conflict effectively."
He goes on to describe the limits of the military in addressing these types of
conflicts, and commends the military foT developing the policy doctrine and the new
technology directions of the Air Force put forward in the book. Newt Gingrich
apparently remains a fan of non-lethal weapons, which he views as useful technology
for domestic law enforcement. Specifically, he said, when commenting on these
technologies, that they "are our real peace dividend" and that they will "preserve the
defense industrial base, stimulate jobs in high-technology industry, and provide
needed new options to local police and law enforcement authorities."312
310 Non-Lethal Technologies; Military Options and Implications", Report of an Independent Task
Force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Malcom H. Weiner, Chairman, released June
22, 1995.
311 Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology. Lt Col. David J. Dean USAF, Editor, Air
University Press, Canter for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base,
Alabama, June 1986.
312 "Armageddon Killing Them Softly" by Russell Shorto, GQ, March 1995.
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Another interesting issue to contemplate is the Defense Department's new
Policy on non-lethal weapon systems, where "adversaries" and "enemies" have been
more broadly deftned, as here the use of such systems against American citizens. The
idea that these systems can be used almost without detection to manipulate the
behavior and thinking of people raises moral questions. This use also appears to be
in conflict with Constitutional rights regarding free expression and speech. The fact
that the military together with the United States Justice Department can now use these
technologies, under their broad definitions, should sound an alarm for all people, not
just Americans.313
In our opinion, the only redeeming discussion in Low-Intensity Conflict.
and Modern Technology, (a compilation of papers presented in 1984) was that some
at the meeting saw the "new" technologies for what they were, and began heated
debates about the morality of using these weapon systems. In the closing page of the
technology overview the following was written:
"Paul Tyler also discusses the application of electromagnetic radiation
(EMR) to low-intensity conflict. He surveys ongoing scientific research into the
biological effects of electromagnetic radiation. Tyler tells us current evidence
indicates that specific biological effects can be achieved by controlling the perimeters
of electromagnetic radiation directed at human subjects. Thus there is the potential to
use EMR to control human behavior or even to maim or kill adversaries. Tyler urges
that the United States should devote considerable resources to exploring the
possibilities of developing EMR weapons technology, which could be of particular
value in low-intensity scenarios. "314
It becomes increasingly obvious that the inner circle of the Department of
Defense placed a substantial amount of effort and emphasis in these areas.
The writer continued:
"Both Tyler's and Ruotanen's (another contributor to Low-Intensity
Conflict and Modern Technology) papers created heated discussions. Some panel
members questioned the advisability of employing nuclear, EMP (electromagnetic
pulse), and EMR (electromagnetic radiation) weapons.They felt the ever-present
danger of escalation would negate any advantage to be gained from surgical ground
or atmospheric nuclear burst. Some on the panel saw Tyler's article as bordering on
moral heresy. It is acceptable to have weapons and strategies to blow bodies into little
pieces or burn them to a crisp, but not to use medical research and techniques to
develop more subtle ways of eliminating or controlling enemies. There was some
feeling that any benefit to be gained from research into EMR effects - dangerous in
itself - might well be overshadowed by indignant outcries against the use of EMR
weapons on human beings. "315
313 Department of Defense Directive, Policy for Non-Lethal Weapons, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense, Draft July 21,1994.
314 Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology,. Lt Col. David J. Dean USAF, Editor, Air
University Press, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base,
Alabama, June 1986.
315 Ibid.
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The development of these new weapons helps demonstrate the general
immorality of war, particularly when the military establishment presents mind
manipulation as a preferable outcome to death. The authors of Angels Don't Play This
HAARP believe that we need open debate on these types of weapons. These
discussions should be similar to nuclear arms talks.
Another revealing section of this military compiled book apparently aimed
at a rationale which would make sense in the minds of defense planners and would
help them deal with the moral issues:
"The articles and discussions in the technology panels generated quite a bit
of heat and quite a bit of light. Chief among the concepts brought into the light was
that the application of technology to low-intensity conflict should not hinge on the
debate over simple or advanced systems, or high versus low technologies...The key is to
recognize specific requirements and apply suitable systems and technologies to meet
those requirements. "316
Stated differently, the military's means justifies the military's end. (For
Ruotanen's comments on electromagnetic pulses see our chapter, "Thermonuclear
Weapons Replaced By Electropulse.")
Obviously, these concepts were well understood by the military in 1984
when the original work was presented which led to this book's publication in 1986.
The system's development moved forward- most likely within "black budgets" from 1984 onward. The HAARP system is the largest concept-delivery system ever
constructed by the military which could create the effects described in 1984.
The next chapter in Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology is the
section written by Captain Paul Tyler. Tyler discusses, to some degree, the
application of non-ionizing radiation using external fields including radiofrequency
radiation and other electromagnetic radiations. He discusses some of the beneficial
effects of this energy for healing wounds, bone regeneration in fractures,
electroanesthesia, acupuncture and pain relief.
He then jumps into the military applications of this technology:
"The potential applications of artificial electromagnetic fields are wideranging and can be used in many military or quasi-military situations... Some of these
potential uses include dealing with terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling
breaches of security at military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in
tactical warfare. In all of these cases the EM systems would be used to produce mild to
severe physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation. In
addition, the ability of individuals to function could be degraded to such a point that
they would be combat ineffective. Another advantage of electromagnetic systems is that
they can provide coverage over large areas with a single system. They are silent and
316 Low-lntensity Conflict and Modern Technology. Lt Col. David J. Dean USAF, Editor, Air
University Press, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force
Base, Alabama, June 1986.
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countermeasures to them may be difficult to develop... One last area where
electromagnetic radiation may prove of some value is in enhancing abilities of
individuals for anomalous phenomena. "317
Tyler's comments point to applications which may already be somewhat
developed. He refers to an earlier Air Force document about the uses of radio frequency
radiation in combat situations, (note that HAARP is the most versatile and the largest
radio frequency radiation transmitter in the world.) He also points out that the uses
may include enhancement of "anomalous phenomena" in individuals. Anomalous
phenomena are those kinds of things which are not readily explained. You might say
these are the quirks in human potentials. These could be called extrasensory or supernormal phenomena. This significant area is carefully screened in the writing. He
refers to Eastern European research and the Soviet work also, without disclosing what
exactly they were doing with this technology.
Another document prepared for the Air Force in 1982 reveals the direction
that branch of the armed services took the technology. While commenting on radio
frequency radiation usages the report stated:
"Biotechnology research must consider the significant advances that can be
made in electromagnetic radiation weapons and defenses that could be in place by the
year 2000.. .Research is first needed to develop and apply methods for assessing pulsed
RFR (radio frequency radiation) effects. Techniques are needed for depositing RFR at
selected organ sites. Mathematical models and physical measurement capabilities
must be developed to track, real time, RFR energy distributions within these organ sites
as a function of physiological processes such as diffusion and blood flow. These
studies will require prudent extrapolation of physical and physiological data
obtained from laboratory animals to humans in operational environments. "318
This 1982 report called for research to develop hardware that could deliver
the radiation through new weapons for the Air Force.
A research publication commissioned by the Air Force - Radio Frequency
Dosimetry Handbook - described these models, in time to meet the schedules they had
put forward in 1982.319 The book gives mathematics for calculating the dosages
(Dosimetry) of radio frequency radiation necessary to cause changes in animals and
humans. The book compiled research spanning five decades, and contains a
bibliography which is 29 pages long. It is the only book of its kind available on the
subject in the world. This book, and more importantly the research behind it, forms
the matrix of thought and theory for the finest electromedical devices for healing yet
contemplated. However, this military research is not being used to heal; it is being
used to develop better methods of killing.
317 Low-lntensitv Conflict and Modern Technology, Lt Col. David J. Dean USAF, Editor, Air
University Press, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base,
Alabama, June 1986, pages 249-251.
318 Final Report On Biotechnology Research Requirements For Aeronautical Systems Through the
Year 2000. Volume I, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 1982, pg. 44.
319 Radiofrequency Radiation Dosimetry Handbook , United States Air Force School of Aerospace
Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, October 1986.
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One of the principal reviewers of the Radiofrequency Radiation Dosimetry
Handbook for the Air Force was Dr. Herman P. Schwan. Dr. Schwan was also the
largest contributor to the book, having two full pages of his work alone cited in the
bibliography. His basic research is being used for the development of military
hardware for use by the West. His recruitment for this is another case of the "military
means justifying the military ends". An interesting aside to this individual's history
Includes his work in Nazi Germany during World War II, where he worked in scientific
laboratories. He was later admitted to the United States under a special military
operation called "Project Paperclip"320, a pro-gram designed to bring to the United
States prominent scientists who had been employed in Nazi laboratories during the
war.321 In 1957, Dr. Schwan was working for the Biological Warfare Laboratories at
Fort Detrick, Maryland, where the United States military gave him a "Top Secret"
security clearance.322 Dr. Schwan is now working at University of Pennsylvania.
Going back for a moment to the 1982 Air Force report referred to earlier, the
use of radiofrequency radiation in the new weapon systems contemplated by the Air
Force was intended to change the central nervous system, cardiovascular system and
the respiratory system. We were distressed to read about the idea of using this
technology to alter the way people think in order to make the "enemy" of the
government incapable of waging war.323 This type of use of a technological
advancement is inherently evil, in the opinion of the authors of this book. Thinking
is a fundamental right of all people. No individual or government should interfere
with the free will of individuals in this way. Moreover, the fact that these
technologies are classified - and hidden from the medical community - denies
humanity the opportunity to explore these areas for healing people rather than for
destructive purposes.
The report speaks about using this technology in a way which could interact
with biological or chemical agents, The report states, "it may be possible to
sensitize large military groups to extremely dispersed amounts of biological and
chemical agents. It should be noted that this may require relatively low level
RFR."324 The idea expressed here is that depositing small amounts of chemicals in a
person's physiological system, in amounts below normal levels where negative
physical effects are known to occur, will ensure they have no perceivable effect until
radio frequency radiation (RFR) is introduced. Once introduced, the RFR creates
physiological reactions which are detrimental to the host. This would allow
individuais who are not exposed to the chemicals to then enter the area of the RFR
without harm to their own bodies. When an operator tunes the RFR in just the right
320 Proiect Paperclip, by Dr. Clarence Rasby, Athenaeum Press, 1975,
321 Memorandum, Office of the Deputy Director of Intelligence, Headquarters European
Command,
October 30, 1947. (provided by: International Committee for The Convention Against Offensive
Microwave Weapons)
322 Memorandum, Headquarters Second United States Army, Fort Meade, Maryland, September 5,
1957. (provided by: International Committee for The Convention Against Offensive Microwave
Weapons)
323 Final Report On Biotechnology Research Requirements For Aeronautical Systems Through the
Year 2000, Volumes I and II, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 1982.
324 Final Report On Biotechnology Research Requirements For Aeronautical Systems Through the
Year 2000, Volumes 1 and II, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 1982.
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way, changes are caused in the energy state of atoms, which cause chemical reactions
in the body, which in turn manifest as physiological or psychological changes.
The introduction of small amounts of chemicals is a very important concept
when cyclotron resonance is considered. The HAARP transmitter uses cyclotron
resonance in radiating its energy transmissions into the ionosphere. This causes a
large increase in reactions in the ionosphere and in living organisms. Cyclotron
resonance occurs when, as a result of complex electromagnetic interactions, a charged
particle or ion begins to go into a circular, or orbital, motion. The speed of the
orbits
is determined by the ratio between the charge and weight of the particle and the
strength of the applied field. Once this happens, and a specific charged particle
frequency determined, if an electric field is added that is in harmony with this
frequency at right angles to the magnetic field, energy is transferred from the electric
field to the charged particle.
Many activities in living cells involve charged particles. Cyclotron
resonance allows for the transfer of energy to cause ions to move more rapidly. it_is
cyclotron resonance which allows very low strength electromagnetic fields, together
with Earth's magnetic field, to produce major biological effects. It happens because
the total effect impacts very specific particles when tuned to the right frequency. To
some degree, this explains why non-ionizing levels of radiation produce the effects
which they do.325 The right weapon system could literally be tuned like a radio by an
operator for the maximum negative effect. The principle could also be applied for
healing purposes, and this area is being researched in some quarters.
Cyclotron resonance can be visualized as a particle being spun like a coiled
spring and then screwed right through the cell wall into the cell. Here, reactions can
lead to good, neutral or negative health effects. This effect is one of the major factors
in electromedicine.
When combined with the Earth's normal magnetic fields, it is important to
note, only ELF (1-100 Hertz) frequencies can cause controlled or accidental negative
health effects. As far as is generally known, this is true until the strength of radiation
escalates to the ionizing level.
The concept of cyclotron resonance was applied to the research carried out
by the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center. They were able to apply external fields in
a way which affected the brain chemistry of animals. They were able to affect the
lithium ion to create the same effect as if they had treated the animal with the
chemical lithium (lithium is used as a strong anti-depressant).326 In other words,
affecting a chemical which was already in the body, or one that is introduced to the
body, a person could literally amplify the effect of the chemical to the point where a
very significant effect is caused, even death. Many naturally occurring chemicals are
not dangerous in the amounts present in the body. If these chemicals are affected by
325 Cross Currents. The Perils of Electropoliution. The Promise of Electromedicine. by Robert O.
Becker, M.D., pg 236-237.
326 Cross Currents. The Perils of Electropoliution. The Promise of Electromedicine. by Robert O.
Becker, M.D., pg 236-240.
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RFR, however, their potency increases to the point of being dangerous. The
introduction of RFR causes a change in energy states, which cause chemical
reactions. The results depend on wave form, frequency and energy level introduced,
among other things. HAARP could be used to deliver the type of radiofrequency
radiation described by Tyler and others. The use of HAARP in this way could be
intentional or accidental, depending on the level of knowledge held by the equipment
operators.
The 1982 report, Final Report On Biotechnology Research Requirements
For Aeronautical Systems Through the Year 2000. went on to describe graphically the
research efforts, breaking them into three primary areas.
* "Pulsed RFR Effects" which covered a research period from 1980 through 1995,
emphasized "considerably increased efforts" in this area.
* "Mechanisms of RFR with Living Systems" was referred to as a "continuation of
ongoing research" beginning in 1980 and forecast to conclude around 1997.
* The last area of emphasis was "RFR Forced Disruptive Phenomena", which they
considered a "major new initiative". It was to begin around 1986 and continue until
2010. This last area could be characterized as applied technology, scheduled to begin
at the same time as the Radiofrequency Radiation Dosimetry Handbook's completion.
The handbook gave the basic information needed to develop new and powerful
weapon systems which would have a negative effect on humans and electronics, but
would leave otheT property unscathed.327 By the mid-1990's, the timeline for
development was on or ahead of schedule.
The above report grew into a second volume, which gave a more detailed
account of the Air Force's 1982 level of knowledge of radio frequency radiation (RFR)
impacts on people. This report says, "As the technological race continues,
knowledge of mechanisms of action of RFR with living systems and the assessment
of pulsed RFR effects will demonstrate the vulnerability of humans to complex pulsed
electromagnetic radiation fields in combination with other stresses."328
The Air Force document laid out the aims and approaches for developing
technological expertise to make adversaries helpless. The use of the technologies
crystallized in the Radiofrequency Radiation Dosimetry Handbook, previously cited.
The researchers' intent was to monitor the effects of the radiofrequency radiations at a
chemical, molecular and atomic level. The document stated,
"Currently available data allow the projection that specially generated
radiofrequency radiation (RFR) fields may pose powerful and revolutionary
antipersonnel military threats. Electroshock therapy indicates the ability of induced
electric current to completely interrupt mental functioning for short periods of time, to
obtain cognition for longer periods and to restructure emotional responses over
327 Final Report On Biotechnology Research Requirements For Aeronautical Systems Through the
Year 2000. Volumes I and II, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas.
328 Final Report On Biotechnology Research Requirements For Aeronautical Systems Through the
Year 2000. Volumes I and II, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, pg. 181-188.
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prolonged intervals. Experience with electroshock therapy, RFR experiments and the
increasing understanding of the brain as an electrically mediated organ suggest the
serious probability that impressed electromagnetic fields can be disruptive of
purposeful behavior and may be capable of directing and/or interrogating such
behavior. Further, the passage of approximately 100 milliamperes through the
myocardium can lead to cardiac standstill and death, again pointing to a speed-oflight weapons effect. "329
The advances in wireless transmission of energy for these kinds of weapons
has reached the stage where we could see them used in the coming decade. It is likely
that the research will give technicians increasingly more versatile and controlled
effects.
The document then built into a wild scheme which, upon first reading,
escaped our research focus. We couldn't quite get the idea of what the Air Force meant
by "interrogating", and how this would fit into the picture of radiofrequency radiation
weapons hardware.
It became clear when we read the following:
"While initial attention should be toward degradation of human
performance through thermal loading and electromagnetic field effects, subsequent
work should address the possibilities of directing and interrogating mental
functioning, using externally applied fields within the possibility of a revolutionary
capability to defend against hostile actions, and to collect intelligence data prior to
conflict onset. "330
What this seemed to say was that the objective of the
research would be toward mind manipulation at a distance, where the
military could alter what people thought and, at the same time,
know what they thought. It seemed too much like a science fiction novel. How
in the world could this effect be possible? How long had research been underway, so
that the military would be so bold as to publish this kind of material in an
unclassified document? Could it be that they had quietly advanced their research into
these technologies under a veil of secrecy? Then again, the Neurophone technology
had been around since the 1960's. It had been thoroughly investigated and most
likely used in forming the basis for new weapons. After all, the military had
confiscated and controlled the technology under a secrecy order decades before (see
Chapter Twenty-two)
The report went on to describe a system which again pointed to the
HAARP project. The report called for the development of:
"A rapidly scanning RFR system [which] could provide an effective stun or
kill capability over a large area. System effectiveness will be a function of waveform,
329 Final Report On Biotechnology Research Requirements For Aeronautical Systems Through the
Year 2000, Volumes I and II, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, pg. 181-188.
330 Ibid.
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field intensity, pulse widths, repetition frequency and carrier frequency. The system
can be developed using tissue and whole animal experimental studies, coupled with
mechanisms and waveform effects research."
This is what HAARP is, among other things. Page V of the HAARP HF
Active Auroral Research Program. Joint Program Plans and Activities specifies that
the RFR heater must have a rapid scanning capability. Other HAARP documents
define the waveform and frequency characteristics as if the same writer had written all
of the documents.331 It is the new tool for the military in meeting their self imposed
challenge of a "technological race." HAARP is the one-size-fits-all RFR
universal tool.
The grossly unfortunate part of this type of experimentation is how it is
used. In our opinion, using RFR and other energies to destroy human life, as opposed
to enhancing it, is immoral. The new directions of the energy sciences in healing
people and enhancing health are not considered by the military - a travesty and a
disservice to us all. At a time when health care costs are rising, and the threats of
major conflict declining, our government continues to spend billions on killing
rather than on enhancing the human experience. These areas are important, and the
research should be available so that more prudent uses can be developed. If this
happened, we believe it would speed the positive developments being pursued by
those who have great energy and creativity; but limited resources.
Unfortunately, the idea of using RFR for destructive purposes negates the
entire area of positive life science applications. The research in life sciences using
electromagnetic radiations (EMR) is advancing outside of the mainstream medical
establishment, but is beginning to be used there as well. Some genetic engineering
researchers for example, are already using this knowledge in their work.
Going back to the text by Captain Paul Tyler, we can look at the debate
between classical theories and recent research. There is a gulf of conflict between
these two schools of thought. The debate centers on the classical idea that only
ionizing radiation (that which generates heat in tissue) can cause reactions in the
body, while new research indicates that subtle, small, amounts of energy can cause
reactions as well. What Tyler wrote in 1984, as an officer in the Air Force, puts the
debate simply. He said,
"Even though the body is basically an electrochemical system, modem
science has almost exclusively studied the chemical aspects of the body and to date has
largely neglected the electrical aspects. However, over the past decade researchers
have devised many mathematical models to approximate the internal fields in animals
and humans. Some of the later models have shown general agreement with
experimental measurements made with the phantom models and animals. Presently
most scientists in the field use the concept of specific absorption rate for determining
the Dosimetry (dosages) of electromagnetic radiation. Specific absorption rate is the
intensity of the internal electric field or quantity of energy absorbed... However, the
use of these classical concepts of electrodynamics does not explain some experimental
331 Ionospheric Research Instrument (HAARP), March 6,1992, Attachment to contract PR. No.
N00014-92-C-0210 issued to ARCO Power Technologies, inc. pages 15-19.
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results and clinical findings. For example, according to classical physics, the
frequency of visible light would indicate that it is reflected or totally absorbed within
the first few millimeters of tissue and thus no light should pass through significant
amounts of tissue. But it does. Also, classical theory indicates that the body should be
completely invisible to extremely low frequencies of light where a single wave length is
thousands of miles long. However, visible light has been used in clinical medicine to
trans illuminate various body tissues. "332
In other words, the classical theories are partially wrong in that they do not
fully explain all of the reactions which are observed in the body. The Navy has
abstracted over a thousand international professional papers by private and
government scientists which explore these issues. The Navy is well aware of the
current research which shows the non-thermal effects of various electromagnetic
radiations when they interact with living tissue,
Tyler continues, "A second area where classical theory fails to provide an
adequate explanation for observed effects is in the clinical use of extremely low
frequency (ELF) electromagnetic fields. Researchers have found that pulsed external
magnetic fields at frequencies below 100 Hertz (pulses/cycles per second) will
stimulate the healing of nonunion fractures, congenital pseudarthroses, and failed
arthroses. The effects of these pulsed magnetic fields have been extremely impressive,
and their use in orthopedic conditions has been approved by the Food and Drug
Administration. "333
Even the FDA, one of the most vigorous regulatory authorities in the
country, accepts these non-thermal effects.
Tyler adds, "Recently, pulsed electromagnetic fields have been reported to
induce cellular transcription (this has to do with the duplication or copying of
information from DNA, a process important to life). At the other end of the non ionizing
spectrum, research reports are also showing biological effects that are not predicted
in classical theories. For example, Kremer and others have published several papers
showing that low intensity millimeter waves produce biological effects. They have also
shown that not only are the effects seen at very tow power, but they are also frequencyspecific. "
Tyler goes on to discuss the results of this new thinking and the possible
effects of these low energy radiations in terms of information transfer and storage,
and their effects on the nervous system. Research has shown that very specific
frequencies cause very specific reactions, and, once a critical threshold is passed,
negative reactions occur.334 The key to Pandora's box has been turned, and the box
has now been opened. Will it result in life or death?
Tyler's paper created a good deaL of controversy but was based upon good
research and an in-depth knowledge of the subject matter covered. In the decade since
332 Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology. Lt Col. David J. Dean USAF, Editof, Air
University Press, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base,
Alabama, June 1986.
333 ibid.
334 ibid.
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its publication, the public debate on the material has continued to grow, even though
many of the sources cited in these pages have limited distribution.
The topics in this section could elevate the debate on military technologies.
What will these areas of research yield? Should citizens take a greater interest in
public affairs and remove the layers of secrecy which mask these research efforts?
These are the issues we all face now, and will continue to face as we move further down
the road of new technology.
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"If you adequately educate your community,
you will find that the politicians will be scrambling to
become better educated themselves."
Helen Caldicott, M.D., Missile Envy
PARTFOUR
STOP THE "MUSIC"
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Chapter Twenty-five
PLAYING THE HAARP
The HAARP program funding was temporarily frozen in 1995 by the United
States Senate. Yet the project moved forward, funded from unknown sources. The
activity was on schedule for the most part, and it included the normal kinds of start-up
activity. The schedule was as follows:
* December 18-22, 1994. This period was used to integrate the system through a
number of tests.
* January 18-25, 1995. The system integration phase of testing was continued.
* February 21 - March 2, 1995. A number of performance tests were run on the
system.
* March 29 - April 13, 1995. Formal testing of the device was done.
* July 25 - August 10, 1995. Improvement evaluations were made, to correct
problems with the transmitter. Low power testing was being done, in which the
military "swept 5000 channels in 3.2 second sweeps between 2.8 and 10
megaHertz".
In the sweep there were three "even mode resonances" discovered which, when hit,
caused a malfunction in the device. Electrical arcing occurred between the antenna
array and the lightning arresters, causing a four inch diameter aluminum plug to
vaporize. The only thing left of the plug was an aluminum coating it left on
insulating wires when it disappeared. The interesting fact about this problem was it
occurred with only 100 watts of power from each of thirty-six operating
antennas.335 What unexpected things will happen when the array is fully energized?
* September 11-22, 1995. The system will be used to test patent number 5,041,834.
The HIPAS facility near Fairbanks, Alaska will be used with HAARP. Both heaters
will be sending energy to the same point in the ionosphere during these tests. The
heating will take place at 250 - 300 kilometers above the earth. Sensing instruments
will be set up in Alaska at facilities in Anchorage, Glenallen and near Fairbanks.336
* Winter/Spring 1996. Testing of earth-penetrating-tomography will begin.337
This testing is part of a $10 million 1996 appropriation for HAARP.338 This
funding was provided under the Counterproliferation Support section of the U.S.
federal budget, used for limiting and monitoring nuclear weapons development in
other countries.
335 Memorandum from Eric Nashlund, Member of the Radio Frequency Interference Committee for HAARP dated August 2, 1995.
336 ibid.
337 HAARP Fact Sheet, Phillip's Laboratory, July 17, 1995.
338 Department of Defense Appropriation Bill, 1996, Chaired by United States Senator Ted Stevens
R-Alaska, Report 104-124, pg. 190. (Provided by Steven Aftergood, Federation of American
Scientists, Washington, D.C.)
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The HAARP antennae are rated for 10,000 watts each at full power. In the
second phase planned for HAARP the array will be increased in size in order to
provide 4,700,000,000 to 10,000,000,000 watts of effective radiated power.
HAARP is going forward but there are still some mechanical problems
which are delaying its progress. These delays are the result of some problems with the
power levels coming from the array. The energy gain is caused by an effect referred to
as "negative impedance".339 The effect was described as "more power returning to the
transmitter than is outgoing from the adjacent antennas". Instead of the energy level
matching with say 10,000 watts going out and 10,000 watts returning - it is returning
energy at 12,000 to 18,000 watts. What does this mean? It is an unexpected result
which is occurring in low energy level testing. What will happen at the higher levels
of energy planned for the future is not known. Is there a HAARP acting like a harpoon
- is there an accident in the making?
339 Telephone interview between Nick Begich and Eric Nashlund a member of the HAARP Radio
Frequency Interference Committee, August 2, 1995.
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Chapter Twenty-six
SOFT SELL, THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
STATEMENT
The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and its public hearings were
completed long ago. There is no independent monitoring of the HAARP project or of
the related University experiments. With the completion of the EIS process, the
hurdle of "oversight" is over for the HAARP players, and nobody is looking over
their shoulders. They now work without significant public scrutiny.
This type of project, is very different from projects which are monitored
continually by independent inspectors with differing program goals than military and
university scientists. The ionosphere belongs to the world. The immediate area
belongs to Americans/Alaskans, who should be monitoring HAARP independently
of its personnel.
The authors of this book believe that the HAARP activity should be
monitored by a panel of multidisciplinary scientists, without conflicts of interest,
who continually review the work under the oversight of the Alaska Department of
Environmental Conservation. Moreover, laws should be passed to put enforcement
teeth into the monitoring. This could be done by giving the oversight committee the
power to freeze all state appropriations to the University if the project presents
significant dangers not disclosed by the military or University. This could halt the
project if the University were otherwise unwilling to follow the recommendations of
the oversight committee. In addition, as long as the local power generating company
was controlled and operated as a member-owned cooperative with an elected Board of
Directors, they could literally unplug HAARP if it eventually connects to the regional
power grid. This could temporarily stop the project while the federal government
argues in the courts about its power demand requirements.
The only real way to stop this project, and others like it though, is through
international pressure. These military projects should have some international
watchdog component, considering the fact that these programs could negatively
impact other countries who are not declared enemies of the United States. What are the
safeguards for any country tampering with atmospheric systems which we all rely on
for life?
The environmental review process is supposed to explore all risks and
impacts in a given project. It was the omission of significant international
community review which led to disputes over thermonuclear testing, dumping waste
into the open seas and other inter-national environmental problems. It is arrogant,
and inexcusable, for any country to think they can create upper atmospheric energy
litter without full disclosure and consent from the other countries which may, pay the
price for these programs in the end.
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While there may be some good effects from this technology, the negative
possibilities are immense. Understanding the planet cannot occur by dissecting the
ionosphere, yet another part of our living system. Environmental Impact Statements
are supposed to be comprehensive and disclose all risks. These documents, and
hearings, are not just some compliance hurdle to be jumped over by the military, the
University and their contractors in their single minded pursuit of their program
mission, These are rules intended to inform the public and protect the environment
from very real hazards. What are the environmental risks which were inadequately
disclosed or explored in the public documents on the project?
The Navy, Air Force and University have not adequately defined the
following risks, nor provided opportunities for public testimony after-ward:
1. Issues missing in the EIS include the possible impacts on the upper atmosphere.
The military and the University should describe the amplification effects which
occur
in the ionosphere when Very Low Frequency radiation (VLF) impacts the
magnetosphere creating a "charged particle rain" (as described in the Navy's research
conducted by Lockheed and Stanford and referred to elsewhere in this book).
2. The issue of non-ionizing radiation has not been disclosed even though the Navy
has cataloged and reviewed more than 1,000 research papers from around the world on
this subject. The risks of this kind of systems' outputs have been explored by the
Army, Navy, Air Force, CIA and others, and yet their research has not been mentioned
at all in any of the HAARP records. Other records from these organizations are
discussed elsewhere in this book, and will serve to dramatize the substantial risks and
potential problems of the electromagnetic radiations being emitted from this system.
3. The Navy conducted international research, modeled after the work of Yale
physiologist Jose MR. Delgado, M.D., which clearly showed that Extremely Low
Frequency (ELF) energy waves cause significant increases in genetic mutation and
alteration in animal embryos. This research may be extrapolated to infer the same
kind of effects on human embryos. The use of ELF in the earth-penetrating
tomography has been acknowledged by John Heckscher, HAARP Program Manager,
although nowhere does he or anyone associated with the project discuss this research.
The potential impact on animal life and people is never disclosed in the EIS. In fact,
it is avoided, except for a couple of lines where the HAARP planners say there is no
effect. When challenged on the issue, they say that the energy is being beamed up and
not down, leaving out entirely the earth-penetrating tomography applications. It is
likely that when challenged on this point they will say, as the government has in the
past, that the energy level is small and not harmful. They have said it is about the
same as that which naturally occurs in the earth. Even if this were true, research has
shown that energy at l/50th of the Earth's natural strength - when pulsed in the right
waveform, at the right frequency - will cause harmful physiological and
psychological effects. The military is not disclosing their own research in this very
important area.
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4. Another one of HAARP's tricks, described by the military (see previous chapter) is
moving the ionosphere in such a way as to allow satellites to operate in the space
previously occupied by that section of the ionosphere. What does this do? It makes a
hole so that all living things under that hole are irradiated, instead of being naturally
shielded from them, The ionosphere is our natural umbrella which lets the good parts
of the electromagnetic spectrum in and filters out the bad. Making holes without
describing these risks is a gross miscarriage of responsibility by our university
professors and defenders of peace - people that Americans, and all citizens of the
world, should be able to trust.
5. The Eastlund patents also discuss molecular manipulation and weather
manipulation. These applications are forbidden by international agreements, and are
avoided in the HAARP documents. They are clearly described in the Eastlund patents
and are alluded to in other govern-mental records.
These are the most glaring risks which require further clarification by our
government. It is important that these and other possible risks be assessed
independently through a process more complete than the normal Environmental
Impact Statement. The ionosphere is not any country's national asset; it is an
international asset and should not be tampered with unless all countries take part in
the decisions which might otherwise result in our mutual demise. Are we so arrogant
as a country to believe that we are the gods of the upper atmosphere and the keepers of
the keys to possibly life and death on Earth?
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Chapter Twenty-seven
PANDORA'S BOX AND THE GREAT TEMPTATION
Some will say that the government would not do the kinds of things
described in these pages. The compilers of this material wish this were the case.
However, American history is littered with the carcasses of bad science and illconceived technologies. Each year, in fact each month, it seems the citizens of all of
the countries of the world are introduced to new scandals of military, "intelligence"
and governmental abuses. The temptation, the compulsion, and the addiction for
more power and control over people are the first evils released from the Pandora's
Box of modern gadgetry. The authors are not against technological advancement but,
rather, hope science can be pursued in the open light of day and can lead toward
improved human conditions.
"Political strategists are tempted to exploit research on the brain and
human behavior. Geophysicist Gordon J. FMacDonald - specialist in problems of
warfare - says accurately-timed, artificially-excited electronic strokes 'could lead to
a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over certain
regions of the earth...In this way, one could develop a system that would seriously
impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions over an
extended period'...No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the
environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the technology
permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades. "340
This statement was made over twenty-five years ago, and was a precursor for
what became reality in 1995.
In 1966, MacDonald was a member of the President's Science Advisory
Committee and later a member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality.
He published papers on the use of environmental control technologies for military
purposes. The most profound comment he made as a geophysicist was, "The key to
geophysical
warfare is the identification
of environmental
instabilities to which the addition of a small amount of energy
would release vastly greater amounts of energy."341 While yesterday's
geophysicists predicted today's advances, the HAARP program managers are
delivering on the vision.
The geophysicists recognized that adding energy to the environmental soup
could have large effects. What was not considered is the fact that humanity has already
added substantial amounts of electromagnetic energy into our environment without
understanding what might constitute critical mass. The questions come... have these
additions been without effect, or is there a cumulative amount beyond which
irreparable damage can be done? Is HAARP another step in a journey from which we
cannot turn back? Are we about to embark on another energy experiment which
unleashes another set of demons from Pandora's box?
340 Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Penguin
Books, Mass. 1976
341 The Cooling, by Lowell Ponte, 1976, pges. 166-169.
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As early as 1970, Zbigniew Brzezinski, later National Security Advisor to
President Jimmy Carter, predicted a "more controlled and directed society" would
gradually appear, linked to technology. This society would be dominated by an elite
group which impresses voters by allegedly superior scientific know-how.
"Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would
not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for
influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control.
Technical and scientific momentum would then feed on the situation it exploits" 342,
Brzezinski predicted.
His forecasts proved accurate beyond what most people would have
expected. Today, a number of new tools for the "elite" are emerging, and the
temptation to use them increases steadily. The policies to permit use are already in
place. We are at the door to our "brave new world".
How would the United States be changed, bit by bit, into the predicted
highly controlled technosociety? Among the "steppingstones" Brzezinski expected
were persisting social crises and use of the mass media to gain the public's
confidence.343
Brzezinski apparently saw that both conservatives and "the doctrinaire left"
might be inclined to justify heavy handed tactics. The left could say that it serves
progress, and the conservatives "preoccupied with public order and fascinated by
modern gadgetry, would be tempted to use the new techniques as a response to unrest,
since they would fail to recognize that social control is not the only way to deal with
rapid social change."344
Even today, February 25, 1995, as we write these words, NBC Nightly News
is announcing the widespread domestic surveillance of Americans and others, through
the CIA's and NSA's monitoring and intrusion into the global Internet. When does
the proliferation of power end and a new compact with freedom begin?
Brzezinski's vision, expressed in his book 25 years ago, was a prophetic
view of the state of the world. It predicted a direction which time has proven correct,
in terms of outcome. Those predictions yet to be realized are profound, and could lead
to a very different and less desirable world, The idea that science is the
hammer of politicians is a reality which people can not ignore.
Government should consider a shift - from war to peace - for the
use of these very advanced research efforts.
The possibilities of these innovations offer all people an opportunity to
excel in health and intelligence. All men and women should press for opening these
technologies to positive and constructive, rather than destructive, purposes. What
342 Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Penguin
Books, Mass. 1976,
343 Ibid.
344 Ibid.
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propels these advances into the wrong directions'? It is the tax dollars of unwitting
Americans.
The system which can promote the use of science, for the true advancement
of mankind, is an open system with a focus on individual opportunities for self
actualization. Systems which promote secrecy by military and intelligence leaders are
fundamentally wrong. They are too likely to be misused, which has been amply
demonstrated in govern-mental systems. Government flows from the people, and
should be a full reflection of the value and belief systems of people, and not some
shadow of the will of those with secret agendas, hidden in the dark rooms of paranoia.
We must press government to reflect our collective views towards a more balanced
world, embracing foundational ideas upon which good governments are formed.
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Chapter Twenty-eight
POWER AND CONTROL
THE END OF FREEDOM
The Manhattan Project which developed the first atomic bomb started in
1942. The first atomic bomb was exploded on July 16, 1945 more than 50 years ago.
That project started with a $6,000 funding appropriation to the Uranium Committee
and ended, by 1945, at $1.7 billion ($20 billion today). The total cost of the United
States nuclear weapons program since the Manhattan Project has been $4 trillion 80% of the entire national debt on the government books in 3995.345 Is HAARP
another program about to plunge the world into a rash of waste and human misery?
The War Against Democracy
"The buzzwords haunting the Pentagon today are 'revolution in military
affairs', The idea, simply put, is that the same technologies that have transformed the
American workplace may have no less profound an effect on the American way of
war. "346
This concept, "revolution in military affairs" (RMA), first emerged in a
document issued by the U.S. Army War College in July, 1994 - The Revolution in
Military Affairs.347 This document said a philosophy of "conflict short of war"
("terrorism, insurgency or violence associated with narcotrafficking") requires new
weapons and a change in public opinion. It asserts that this change in opinion does
not have to evolve naturally, but can be deliberately shaped by the government. The
idea is that belief systems of Americans can be slowly altered to allow the military to
introduce new weapons technology which, at this time, would be resisted by most
Americans.
What this book puts forward is:
"In its purest sense, revolution brings change that is permanent,
fundamental, and rapid. The basic premise of the revolution in military affairs
(RMA) is simple: throughout history, warfare usually developed in an evolutionary
fashion, but occasionally ideas and inventions combined to propel dramatic and
decisive change. This not only affected the application of military force, but often
altered the geopolitical balance in favor of those who mastered the new form of
warfare."
The Revolution in Military Affairs describes "people's wars", which it
limits to Marxist ideologies. The phrase could be equally applied to what occurred in
the Philippines and to Eastern Europe's popular revolutions in the late 1980's. The
345 U.S. News & World Report, "Outlook, Database", July 17, 1995.
346 Eliot A Cohen, "Come the Revolution", Defense and Technology Issue; National Review, July
31, 1995, Vol XLVII, No. 14.
347 The Revolution in Military Affairs, toy Steven Metz and James Kievit, July 25, 1994, U.S
Government Printing Office: 1994-504-111/00089.
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military's writers say that there is a shift to "spiritual" and "commercial"
insurgencies, which they do not define well. They imply that these kinds of
"insurgencies" represent national security risks to be defended against. This may be
the case but, who will decide what is "spiritually" or "commercially"
correct?
The military's authors discuss emerging technologies which may go against
Americans' beliefs in such things as the presumption of innocence, the right to
disagree with the government, and the right to free expression and movement
throughout the world. At one point in the document they discuss the need to use new
technology to keep track of Americans traveling out of the United States:
"While advances in robotics and information technologies may make it
possible to perform many commercial activities with fewer employees in dangerous
regions, those Americans who are overseas will be more isolated and dispersed. This
complicates the main problems of NEOs (noncombatant evacuation operations):
identification and notification of the individuals to be evacuated, identification of
safe routes, and assessment of threats to the evacuation. Technology could diminish
these problems. In the near future every American at risk could be equipped with an
electronic individual position locator device (IPLD). The device, derived from the
electronic bracelet used to control some criminal offenders or parolees,would
continuously inform a central data bank of the individuals' locations. Eventually such
a device could be permanently implanted under the skin, with automatic remote
activation either upon departure from the U.S. territory (while passing through the
security screening system at the airport, for example) or by transmission of a NEO alert
code to areas of conflict. Implantation would help preclude removal of the device
(although, of course, some terrorists might be willing to remove a portion of the
hostage's body if they knew where the device was implanted). The IPLD could also
act as a form of IFFN (identification friend, foe or neutral) if U.S.
military
personnel
were
equipped
with
appropriate
challenge/response devices."
The most likely people to receive the implants are military personnel who
will be told that this will help rescue them if they are captured. They may be the first,
setting the stage for the rest of the country. Will our military personnel object? Will
our defenders recognize that this is an invasion by our government into the rights
guaranteed by our Constitution - a Constitution they have sworn to defend?
Another technology mentioned is a method for interfering with activities
the government judges to be wrong. In the examples given, most of us would agree
intervention should take place at some level. However, the methods contemplated are
extreme. Will those with the power to invade the privacy of individuals do so and
without just cause? Will the holders of the power be trusted by the rest of the
population? The military planners anticipate a resounding - "NO"! There-fore, they
propose a series of events to shift the popular view to the opposite extreme. They
propose a revolution of society which will allow for a Revolution in Military Affairs.
At this point, they lay out a fictional scenario where the illusion of the need for this
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kind of control could be created. In the scenario, a plan to desensitize the population
to increasing control and, introduction of the new technology, through systematic
manipulation and disinformation by the government is initiated. What they have put
forward might even be underway.
E-Systems developed Global Positioning System (GPS)348 technologies
(satellite based) which can locate objects anywhere in the world within one foot of
the object's actual location. They also developed systems for law enforcement which
can intercept faxed messages, telephone calls, modem transfers, and video
transmissions on a single system. They developed the EMASS computers which are
powerful enough to sort the volumes of information needed for tracking billions of
people. They were the owners of HAARP, under their controlling company,
Raytheon.
Under their nonfiction scenario the military's writers say:
"For example, remote intrusive monitoring of the financial computer
networks of offshore banks could identify the deposits associated with money
laundering. If desired, such accounts could be electronically emptied."
In another section, the document emphasizes behavior and attitude
alteration. This is the very heart of an RMA.
"Greatly improved intelligence gathering and fusion is a primary component
of the RMA, and proposed information warfare capabilities might be ideally suited for
helping develop desired emotions, attitudes, or behavior."
The entire text of this little book will leave readers wondering - If this is
the kind of material the military is letting out for public review, what are they hiding
in those billion dollar "black budgets"? In another section The Revolution in
Military Affairs discusses the reality of the RMA:
"Even with all the constraints and countermeasures, there is some value in
applying emerging technology using existing strategy, doctrine, organization, force
structure, objectives, concepts, attitudes and norms. But there is another alternative:
we could deliberately engineer a comprehensive revolution, seeking utter
transformation rather than simply an expeditious use of new technology. However
alluring, such a program is rife with hidden dangers and unintended consequences.
Unlike the Manhattan Project, we are not forced to pursue revolution without
considering the implications. In conflict short of war, RMA is a Pandora's box
desperately in need of careful scrutiny before opening".
The National Review article quoted earlier in this chapter says that this box
has already been opened and that the concept of an RMA is already occupying the best
minds in the Pentagon. (The Revolution in Military Affairs, has been reprinted and is
available - see Resource Guide at the end of this book for ordering information.)
348 "E-Systems, Inc. Nineteen ninety-four Annual Report to Stockholders"; March 10,1995.
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The Cold War is not over, but has changed. We know that there are concerns
which, being a free people, we must address and bring to the attention of others. We
believe that the greatest threat to freedom is an over-oppressive and increasingly
secretive government. To many, the government has shifted from one "of the people,
by the people and for the people" to a government "of special interests, for their own
benefit, at the people's expense". What went wrong, and where it went wrong, to a
large extent, is a product of the intelligence bureaucracies which thrive through one
administration to the next with unrestrained growth. These secretive bureaucracies
hide more and more of their secrets under a cloak of "national security", while drifting
further from the principles which have allowed the United States to exist for over two
hundred years. Secret government policy is not sanctioned by the free will of the
population, and threatens the core beliefs of liberty, honest government and public
responsibility.
The only truly free people are those who live in an open society, a society
which cherishes above all the right of men and women to control and set the values
that their government should reflect. These are the popularly set values which must be
pressed into the philosophy of all projects, policies and programs our governments
seek to project into reality. No program should be permitted to grow out of
democratic governments which does not reflect the values and will of those governed.
There have been too many Watergates, Irangates, and political wars which have only
served politicians and protected corporate America. Our military and economic
policies are increasingly empty of the values upon which our democratic forms of
government rest.
When we look at HAARP documents, we see that the military, the
contractors and the University of Alaska all appear to have deliberately misled the
public and elected officials.
In other projects - tike proposed nuclear excavation discussed earlier - it
was the biologists at the University who objected. In the HAARP project, the
environmental, biological and life sciences are again not explored enough. Given its
potential impacts, the project should be subjected to continuous rigorous
independent review by specialists in the life sciences and atmospheric science.
Those deriving their incomes and future positions from HAARP-type projects should
not be called upon to be the guardians of the interests of the rest of the world. It is
impossible for these geophysicists to have had all of the training required to assess
all of the risks. This is not to say that Institute scientists are reckless in their
approach, but are they fully aware of the potential environmental and health risks?
Is HAARP the beginning of the "Brave New World"? It is time to think
about a change in the way we allow our government to evolve - into oppressor rather
than servant. Our system of democracy was set up to serve and enhance life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. Are these dead concepts? We think not, it is time to rise
from the ashes of our apathy and take a step to improve our world.
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"Magnetism is a unifying factor that interlinks all events,
forms and life on Earth."
International Earth Emergency Network349
"Everything is connected to everything to everything else,
especially by the electromagnetic spectrum."
Philip S. Callahan, Ph.D., author, The Paramagnetic ELF Forces
"It's insane to bounce our atmosphere around with what's holding the atmosphere
to the planet in the first place."
Daniel Winter, Ph. D.
Chapter Twenty-nine
A CLEAR NOTE
Nick Begich's exploration of the HAARP protest took him literally to the
ends of the land. In July 1995 he and Shelah took their children to Homer, the
community in a location that Alaskan's call Land's End. While setting up camp on the
beach, they were greeted with hearty Alaskan bear hugs by one of the activists with
whom Nick had been corresponding. Like others from the bush country who chose
anonymity in their NO HAARP activities, he will be known by a pseudonym, Joe.
Joe turned out to be a sturdily built man, nearing middle age, who obviously
cares deeply about his planet. Perhaps too deeply. Although living on a subsistence
income, he had spent too much on the NO HAARP campaign, had become exhausted,
and had only recently recuperated. His perception of being isolated had been an
emotional challenge during the previous year, as he personally dealt with the
concerns outlined in this book. Now, however, he realized the strength that comes
from connection with a network of people who share his concerns: Joe has learned
that people can make a difference.
Reading the first draft manuscript for this book, Joe noticed that
independent scientists were expressing much of what he felt. For example, Dr.
Elizabeth Rauscher and William van Bise ended a scientific paper by pointing out that
most of the recent technologies have stripped nature away from people.350 Too
many technologists' aim seem to be "to shield us from nature, to 'conquer' and control
her while designing ever more dangerous weapons systems with which to more
efficiently strip all life from the planet", they said. The two concerned scientists had
added that "we must examine why man has moved toward such insane motivation,
toward mutual destruction..." They concluded that we must ask whether or not society
will again decide to pursue noble objectives..."
349 Dr. Daniel Winter and friends, International Earth Emergency Network, Waynesville NC
28786, E-mail: [email protected]; and Dr. B.K. Wee, World Research Information Center, 22 White
House Park, Singapore 1025; voice 65-323-2032; fax 65-235-9862.
350 Elizabeth Rauscher and Wm. van Bise, "Fundamental Excitatory Modes of the Earth and
Earth-Ionosphere Resonant Cavity", Proceedings of the 1988 International Tesla Symposium
Colorado Springs.
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Meanwhile, individuals such as the Alaskan activists do what they can.
Clare Zickuhr handed over to Joe the job of co-coordinating the No HAARP campaign
before Clare and Barbara sold their house and went traveling. (His employment had
ended, through ARCO cutbacks and early retirements in 1994.)
Dr. Bernard Eastlund's ideas continued to be mentioned, but not in the media
that he preferred. Reporters for small publications and radio talk shows noted the
connection between his patents and HAARP, but unfortunately many of those reports
were inaccurate in some of the details. The accurate reports, however, raised common
questions. Will those scientists who punch the ionosphere with gigawatt pulses be
remembered as the true mad scientists of the century? The spirit of sorcerer's
apprentices is alive in those who get National Science Foundation grants to "turn on
the northern lights by heating the ionosphere with radio waves" and stir up
"magnetospheric substorms".35l
While the Begiches discussed these issues with fellow Alaskans, coauthor
Jeane Manning put a call through to one of the increasingly rare generalists with a
Ph.D. in science, Philip Callahan, an expert on radio systems/electronics as well as
biology. He sums up the situation in plain words: "Every living human being is like a
sponge in a bowl of jelly. When the atmospheric jelly shakes - the ELF waves - then
the jelly in the sponge also shakes at the same frequency."352
Callahan has sharp words for the people who are putting up HAARP "...
talking about shooting a hole in the ionosphere. They don't know a hill of beans
about the ionosphere! There's nothing wrong with studying Mother Nature and then
copying her. But they're trying to jam up the system, that's the problem."
Callahan knows low frequency systems; he put them up in Japan for the U.S.
defense department before he went back to school and became an entomologist and
biophysicist. (With his multidisciplinary interests, he learned it is possible to tune
into unwanted insects by knowing the resonant frequency of an insect's antenna.
Because of this knowledge, he has been fighting insecticide use for 35 years. The
non- poisonous alternative, on the other hand, jams the insects' homing beacon
system with electromagnetic static.)
Jeane Manning asked him if HAARP is any threat to the insects of the
world, and Callahan replied "Yes. It's bound to be, because their antennas are tuned
into some of the frequencies that will bounce down from HAARP's ionospheric
modification."
He was working for a government agency when the ionosphericmodification plan heated up. "I got a call from them; they wanted to know what I
thought it would do to insects. I said 'You'll probably mess some of them up, because
it messes up the insects under the power lines...I've seen night time moths flying
around and feeding in the daytime when they're under power lines. I've also seen them
351 Neil M. Brice, "Method and Apparatus for Triggering a Substantial Change in Earth
Characteristics and Measuring Earth Changes", U.S. Patent No. 4,042,196.
352 Dr. Philip Callahan's recent books, Exploring the Spectrum and Paramagnetism are available
from Acres USA, Po box 8800, Metairie, LA. 70011, Ph. 504-889-2100.
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under power lines feeding until they swell up and burst. So what it boils down to is,
it's like when insecticides came out - we don't know what they do."
HAARP is going ahead, however, despite the warning of possible
biological effects. Callahan adds, "Nobody's studying it; they just sit there and say
'there's no harm in it'. Out of sight, out of mind."
FORBID THE CENTIMETER-WAVES!
Dr. Wolfgang Volkrodt of West Germany takes an extreme position on this
challenge facing the people of Earth.353 "Centimeter-wave technology must
disappear from our environment! We need a UNO (United Nations Organization)
charter which would prohibit the entire field of electromagnetic wave technology
which causes disastrous resonance in biological systems," Volkrodt insists, He
calls
for monitoring centers that can detect use of the prohibited wavelengths anywhere,
even those harmful wavelengths beamed from satellites.
While the authors see a total ban on microwave relay and radio frequency
technology as being unrealistic, we agree with Volkrodt that there is widespread
denial of the hazards. Dr. Volkrodt says "the path seems long and arduous until our
politicians realize what is happening in the research institutes of the super powers,
and what explosive findings will confront the inhabitants of this endangered world
before the end of this century. Let us hope that those in positions of responsibility
will awake before it is too late."
The authors interviewed other experts whose warnings were more low-key.
For example, James Beale of Louisiana, whose career has been in a variety of
electromagnetic research venues, regrets to see that there are not many experts on
bioelectromagnetics, and fewer still who are independent of military contracts.
Furthermore, said Beale, those experts prefer to talk among themselves instead of
with the public. "This is where you need bridge science', which is what is going to
come about by talking on the Internet."
Bridging between specialties, and between scientists and the public, is one
of the most pressing needs uncovered by our research. It isn't hard to do. Today's
engineers can walk into a library or across campus to the biological sciences
departments and find stacks of information about the inter-relatedness of Earth's
electrical, magnetic and biological systems. But to what extent do they bother to
look outside their own specialty?
The life sciences such as biology look at the web of connections between
living organisms and Earth's natural systems. Sciences which deal with what is dead
or mechanical are over- represented in the board rooms where military projects are
conceived, bought and sold. For example, one engineer commented on the
educational background of Col. John A. Alexander, chief spokesman for the U.S.
military's "non-lethal" weapons campaign. "He's the only person I've met who brags
about having a degree in thanatology, the study of death."
353 Raum & Zeit, Vol. 1, Nov. 2, 1989, pg. 57.
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As we look back at the messes humanity made while industrializing this
world, leading-edge thinking has evolved beyond the goal of dominion over nature.
Instead, an emerging outlook respects each form of life as having an integrity of its
own while at the same time inter- related to all species.
Nikola Tesla's thinking was a product of his times, and therefore his genius
was limited by a sometimes mechanistic viewpoint. Tesla wanted his inventions to
help humanity. He can be excused for not mentioning ecology, because in his time
the word had not been coined yet. As a trailblazing technophile, he thought it would
be exciting to manipulate weather and light up the ionosphere just as you would
charge up the contents of a fluorescent bulb. He imagined the upper atmosphere
glowing over a selected region of cities to illuminate the earth at night. This
megaproject mindset lives on, a century later.
What has happened to Tesla's ideas of sending vast amounts of electrical
power wirelessly? The ideas are out of date, now that inventors are making rapid
advances in tapping the free energy in space which Tesla prophesied could be used.
(The topic is beyond the scope of this book, but we will mention that in 1995 John
Hutchison, mentioned in chapter one, was one of those who successfully built such an
invention - a small scale electricity generating device that could make the central
power station obsolete.) Nevertheless, it seems that engineers are still fascinated by
wireless concepts. A paper presented to an engineering society354 talks about
Tesla's idea to use the electrically-conductive layers in the upper atmosphere as the
conductive path, and other possibilities for beaming power. We excerpt a comment
from the Weather Modification section of the paper: "Since the potential of the
electrosphere is about 300 KV relative to the earth, and the wireless system as
proposed by Tesla was designed to operate at 30-100 MV, there is a significant
potential for electrically disturbing the atmosphere. It is not known whether this
would be beneficial or harmful."
Under the heading of Economic Viability, the paper notes, "Multiple
transmitters could conceivably be phased to control the location of antinodes from
which power could be extracted,.." (By the way, the paper's 76 footnotes includes the
Eastlund/Ramo patent 4,712,155, "Method and Apparatus for Creating an Artificial
Electron Cyclotron Heating Region of Plasma", cited under the heading Transmission
Line Coupling. The often cited patents...)
In his autobiography, Tesla said the impulse that dominated him was "to
harness the energies of nature to the service of man." A fine sentiment, but it can be
carried too far when the Sorcerer's Apprentices try to harness the electric rivers in the
sky through HAARP.
The tones of voices talking about HAARP range from helpless anger to calm
determination. The man called Gregory whom you met in Chapter One, on the one
end, had shouted that the "Mad scientists are getting even with all the crap they had to
put up with as kids and as nerdy adolescents, and they want to kill our planet!"
354 Kurt L. VanVoorhies, P.E., and James E. Smith, Ph.D., "The Promises and Prospects of
Worldwide Wireless Power Transfer: An Overview", 1991 Intersoctety Energy Conversion
Engineering Conference proceedings.
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On the other hand, with a scientist's habit of understatement Rosalie
Bertell, Ph.D. said about HAARP: "I am also concerned."355 She was writing a book
for the Women's Press in London, England, on a broader but related topic - militarism
and the environment.
HOW DO WE TURN IT AROUND?
Dr. Bertell says women can help reverse the destructive trends. Bertell, who
holds a doctorate degree in biometry and has worked on cancer/birth defect research
for decades, documents the impact, on the earth's environment, of war
preparation. 356
"Because of the non violent tendencies of women and their interpersonal
skills already developed, it is imperative that women take their rightful place in
decision making. This is especially true of participation in strategic "think tanks",
military command posts and areas of international law."
She further points out that resolving conflict without excessive damage to
our life-support system is not purely a women's skill, nor do all women have it. But
admitting women into the circles of power could open the doors.
Dr. Bertell suggests guidelines for recovery from our addiction to violence.
Here is a shortened list of her recommendations:
* "Acknowledge that war is not a natural human trait but rather a learned behavior..."
* "Embrace justice and international equity as a way to peace."
* "Demand environmental impact hearings on all military undertakings, including
the space programs. Unmask the self-destructive tendencies of war making. Freeze
military budgets at the current level, and every year reduce them by 20 per cent,
putting the savings into UN currency that can only be used for human needs."
(Environmental cleanup included.)
* "Learn to love and appreciate biological organisms...and the intricacies of the web
of life."
* "Teach your children to make peace, to break the habits of violence."
* "See yourself as one with your planet home, 'a child of the universe, capable of
feeling a blow to any part of the life system anywhere in the universe. The web of life
is intricately interconnected and fragile. Fracture it and we are all doomed."
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355 From a June 2,1994, letter to Jeane Manning from Dr. Rosalie Bertell, International Institute of
Concern for Public Health, 830 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ont. M5R 3G1,
356 Rosalie Bertell, "Exposing the Agenda of the Military Establishment", Sept. 1993 Ecodecision,
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The authors of this book don't expect life scientists or women to suddenly
appear around the tables in the Pentagon in significant numbers. However, our
hope is that a wider range of voices will be increasingly heard when decisions are
made about whether to violate the integrity of a huge natural system such as
Earth's ionosphere. Or whether to violate the very consciousness of the people
on this planet.
As long as the macho attitudes prevail, people with taxpayers' money in
their pockets will try to "engineer" planetary systems. As more and more ordinary
people realize that the U.S. military wants to experiment with the earth's electrical
shield, they express feelings akin to the scientist Dr. Malcolm portrayed in the film
Jurassic Park. He said he was staggered by the lack of humility before nature - men
wielding an awesome power, "like a kid that's found his dad's gun."
Not all engineers are enthusiastic about wielding big guns, of course. An
engineer from Europe told Manning that he doesn't want to jump to conclusions, but
he pictures the emanations from the HAARP apparatus as creating nodes in the upper
atmosphere, "where they superimpose on one another and have a resonating and
amplifying effect." He asks "how can we have the slightest idea what that will do to
the planetary environment?"
The editor of Acres USA, commenting on a letter about HAARP, is blunt.
"We have had enough of scientists going off half-cocked."
Meanwhile, Dr. Robert Becker expresses his opinion that "the military
establishment still believes that the survival of the military organism is worth the
sacrifice of the lives and health of large segments of the American population."
The authors of this book are neither technophiliac nor anti-military.
However, military funded technology has been allowed to steamroll over the planet.
Isn't it time for educated citizens to cut the allowances of the big boys and supervise
them more closely? Isn't it time for fear based thinking to be replaced by the more
grownup policy of love and consideration?
That may sound abstract and unscientific, until the skeptic has a serious
dialogue with frontier scientists such as Dr. Daniel Winter, author of Alphabet of the
Heart and co-founder of the Earth Grid Emergency Network.357 In a letter to
Manning, he said "the key concept to under-standing how HAARP will undermine our
planet is the principle that charge recursion - or maximum possible fractal
embeddedness in spin systems - is what creates gravity in the first place."
Recursion is the repeating of patterns within patterns in nature. Whether or
not the reader understands his cross disciplinary discussions - of nature's fractal
symmetry, harmonics series, platonic series at the atomic level, spin geometry,
resonance, coherence and trees as antennae - the emerging science that Winter writes
about shines a powerful light of both hope and warning. There is hope for stabilizing
357 Daniel Winter and Friends, Alphabet of the Heart: Sacred Geometry , 137 Biodome Drive,
Waynesville, NC 28786. E-mail [email protected]
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both Earth's crust and its atmosphere. Winter cites experiments that seem to prove
the principle that "fractality of (electromagnetic) charge creates gravity." Such
features of the magnetic grid keep an atmosphere nestled around a planet.
On the other hand, his warnings include this:
"Mars lost her atmosphere; we're losing ours. Let's understand why
microwave coherence around long wave magnetic domains creates microclimates,
before we decide to aggravate Earth with poisonous gigawatts of power to poke away
at her atmosphere. The long-term question of gene pool survival depends on the skill
of learning to retain atmosphere. HAARP is a very poor start at demonstrating that our
gene pool has the skill to terraform planets."
"Particularly now, with Earth's orbital pole doing radical excursions out of
tilt - with the lunar orbit destabilizing - and with the ability to hold atmosphere and
ozone weakening, particularly at the poles, the planet is very sensitive to bouncing the
atmosphere in and out for scientists' gigawatt 'probes',"
Dan Winter concluded: "HAARP stands to slice a huge tear in the fractal of
magnetic Alaska, Earth will feel this change in charge, as a tearing wound that will
not heal..."
The authors suggest that anyone concerned about HAARP contact a federal
legislator to protest, and insist that life sciences get meaningful funding and decision
making power. And that emerging advanced technologies be in the hands of our
wisest men and women, not our most aggressive or those entrenched in the biggest
budgets.
We hope that independent scientists will meet face to face as well as on the
Internet, regarding HAARP related topics. An international symposium is urgently
needed. Philanthropists could help with travel and research funding for the scientists,
because independent thinkers have been blackballed out of the high salaried jobs. For
example, financially struggling consultants cannot even afford the yearly fees now
charged for accessing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NASA)
data.
Researchers who shun the "black budget" world of military programs need a
"white budget". White-budget projects could include the spreading of ground up
volcanic rock to restore Earth's paramagnetism.358 Dr. Callahan says that chemical
agriculture and clear cutting of forests caused the soil's paramagnetic ingredients to
change or wash into the sea.) Such constructive projects could be carried out by
ordinary people all over the world, replacing feelings of fear with those of
empowerment.
358 For study of paramagnetism as a part of the glue which holds the atmosphere in place, see
recent books by Dr. Philip Callahan, available from Acres USA, PO box 8800, Metairie, LA
70011-8800. Fax 504-889-2777.
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In Brave New World Revisited. Aldous Huxley said, in 1958;
"Meanwhile there is still some freedom left in the world..some of us believe
that without freedom a human being cannot become fully human, and that freedom is
therefore supremely valuable. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too
strong to be resisted for long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them."
On the road to that goal, other thinkers point toward a possible manmade
barrier. They question whether an increasingly stressful electromagnetic environment
is interfering with clear thinking on a large scale. If so, then society's ignorance of
this invisible crazymaker is the problem. Humanity has the resources to change its
technologies if we have the political will to do so. Non-scientists must educate
themselves on the issues and speak up; the sciences as a self regulating system seems
to have broken down. The breakup of the sciences into ever- narrower specialties has
made it difficult for specialists to synthesize a wide range of facts about our planet and
come up with wisdom.
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GLOSSARY
Electromagnetic field (EM field). A force field which radiates out from any
moving electrical current. They have both an electric field and a magnetic field and
move in a direction away from the electric current.
Electromagnetic pulse (EMP). A pulse or blast of electromagnetic energy.
These kinds of pulses are caused by nuclear explosions and can be created with an
electrical device. The pulses created can cause electrical circuits to burn out.
Electromagnetic spectrum. This refers to a continuum which organizes
electromagnetic fields based on their relative number of oscillations or frequency.
Nonionizing portions of the electromagnetic spectrum starts with zero (no
oscillations) extending to visible light with trillions of oscillations peT second.
Frequencies which are above that of visible light are said to be ionizing. Ionizing
frequencies include X-rays and cosmic rays, among others. The spectrum is divided
into various parts based upon their usage including ELF, microwaves, radiowaves,
etc.
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF). 0 - 1000 cycles or pulses per second.
Field. A area around a source of electric or magnetic energy where in which a
measurable force exists. This is sometimes referred to as radiation because it radiates
out, and away, from the source.
Hertz (Hz). The frequency - number of pulses, cycles or oscillations per second.
One thousand cycles per second equals one kiloHertz (KHz); one million equals one
megaHertz (MHz); and, one billion equals one gigaHertz (GHz).
Ion. An atom which has either a positive or negative charge because it has either
gained or lost an electron.
Ionizing. The production of ions from atoms by exposure to radiation with enough
energy to dislodge electrons.
Microwave. The part of the electromagnetic spectrum from 500 million cycles per
second up to visible light.
Nonionizing radiation. The part of the electromagnetic spectrum from zero to
the frequencies of visible light.
Radio frequency (RF). The part of the electromagnetic spectrum from .5 million
cycles per second through 500 million cycles per second.
Very low frequency (VLF). The part of the electromagnetic spectrum from 1000
cycles per second through .5 million cycles per second.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
HAARP
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The diagram was taken from the "Biennial Report 1991-92, Geophysical Institute,
University of Alaska Fairbanks". It shows the interrelationships of the
various programs being operated by the University.
194
This diagram appeared in the Environmental Impact Statement on HAARP on
page 10-127, Volume II. It shows the locations of other "ionospheric heaters" that
are now operating. These other "heaters" are much smaller and less versatile than
the new HAARP transmitter.
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This illustration was taken from the HAARP Environmental Impact Statement,
page 10-126 Volume II. It shows a number of the applications of the technology
which the military planners have acknowledged.
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The diagram below (taken from government records) shows the focusing power of
the HAARP ionospheric heaters. This diagram shows the unique feature of
Eastlunds idea - to focus the energy to a point in the ionosphere. Other ionospheric heaters project the energy in the opposite way with the energy beam getting wider and wider as it moves up into the atmosphere. The new heater concentrates the energy whereas with the old technology the energy dissipates with height.
FIGURE 1. Ionospheric Research Instrument Conceptual Drawing
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This diagram was also drawn by Eastlund to show the effect of his full sized
heater. It shows the charged particle motion in the Earth's Geomagnetic Field.
198
This diagram below was drawn by Eastlund to illustrate his global shield concept.
Charged Parttcle Motion in Earth's Geomagnetic Field
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This diagram below was taken from the primary U.S. Patent of Eastiund (4,686,605).
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This diagram shows the over-the horizon radar applications of the HAARP technology. This diagram was from U.S. Patent #4,999,637 which was based, in part,
on Eastlund's patents #4,686,605 and #4,712,155.
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The diagrams below appear in U.S. Patent #5,038,664 and #4,817,495 and depict
the shielding and discriminating effects of the HAARP heater at full size.
US. Patent
Apr. 4,1989
4,817,495
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these diagrams were taken from patent #4,817,495. They show the HAARP system being used to locate and distinguish between incoming objects from space.
This application of the system would be used for determining the nature of payloads on incoming crafts in order to locate those carrying nuclear warheads.
US. Patent Apr.4,1989
4,817,495
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This diagram was taken from U.S. Patent #5,041,834 and shows the over-thehorizon applications of the HAARP technology. 1 is the HAARP heater. 2 is
an artificially created mirror in the atmosphere which is used to bounce a signal
for use in communications and distinguishing between incoming objects.
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This diagram shows part of the power beaming systems described in the patents.
This illustration show an energy beam being projected from the Earth into space
and bounced to a remote tocation thereby providing power to a point where it
would otherwise not be available.
U.S. Patent
1993
Apr. 13,
5,202,689
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This illustration is from presentations made at the HAARP Workshop on Ionospheric Heating Diagnostics which was held April 30 - May 2, 1991 at Phillips
Laboratory (AFSC) Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts. The illustration shows graphically how the ionosphere will be used to bounce Extremely Low Frequency (ELF)
waves through the earth and atmosphere. The waves in this picture are being used
for communication with submarines. These ELF waves can disrupt mental functions and may impact wildlife migration patterns.
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HAARP continues to occupy a significant amount of our attention and has
remained the focus of much of our current work. We have had the opportunity to speak
out about this project in numerous radio and television programs. In addition, a
number of news articles have begun to be published throughout the country on this
very important subject. We are thankful to all of the media people which have granted
us time to bring our work out in front of the citizenry. The issue has not slowed down
in terms of general interest in the topic. The story has served as a catalyst for
involvement in political and governmental affairs for many individuals.
We have received a number of articles and news clippings from across the
country which has provided a good deal of material for use in this publication. One of
the most interesting pieces of information arrived just after the book was published.
An article, "Behind the Russian SDI Offer: A Scientific, Technological, and
Strategic Revolution", appeared in the magazine 21st Century in the summer of 1993.
The article was based on a front page story appearing in a Soviet government
newspaper, Izvestia, on April 2, 1993. The article disclosed a whole new area of
science and invited the United States to participate in the joint development of this
new technology in a "Star Wars" weapons program. The initiative indicated that the
Russians were far ahead in many of the areas important to the development of this
"Star Wars" technology. One of the key components of the Russian technology was
their greater under-standing of "nonlinear" processes involved in the generation,
propagation and absorption of powerful pulses of electromagnetic radiations.
What are "nonlinear" processes? This relates to the idea of a small input of
additional energy creating a disproportionally larger output of energy. A research
scientist, Al Zielinski, recently sent us the following example of nonlinear effects:
Experiment #1
Imagine we had an unlimited amount of dominoes and we lined them up from
here to, let's say, Paris. Then we could tip the first domino with 10 grams; it will fall
down and cause the second domino to tumble, too, etc. The first action of 10 grams will
cause all the dominoes to tumble including the last domino in Paris,
Prom this experiment we should understand that it b not the 10 gram action
that causes all the dominoes to tumble, but the 10 gram action just creates an
imbalance of the first domino. It is the gravity, however, that causes the dominoes to
fall. In other words: only a 10 gram action is required to trigger a gravitational
activity of all our dominoes from here to Paris.
Experiment #2
Imagine we had an unlimited amount of special dominoes of which only the
first one we line up here is of normal size, and all the subsequent dominoes we line up
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again from here to Paris are of continuously increased size. By the time we reached
Paris, the last domino block would be 1000 meters high and weigh millions of ions.
Again we tip the first domino here with 10 grams, which will fall down causing all the
subsequent dominoes to tumble. By the time the gravitational action reaches Paris, the
last domino in Paris will smash the Eiffel Tower.
From this experiment we should understand that it is not the 10 gram action
here that will smash the Eiffel Tower in Paris, but it is the gravitational energy that is
picked up on the way to Paris that smashes the Eiffel Tower.
In other words: only a 10 gram action is required to trigger a non-linear
gravitational activity which will cause the destruction of the Eiffel Tower.
With the above examples in mind imagine the nonlinear effects of 1 billion
watts of effective radiated power being directed at the ionosphere by the HAARP
transmitter. This is the first phase capability of the project. The second phase will
increase the effective radiated power levels even further- to 4.7 billion watts! In our
book we point out that energy in certain frequencies when reaching the outermost
portions of the ionosphere can be amplified up to 1000 times by natural processes.
This phenomena has been recorded by scientists at UCLA who have observed the
results of these power amplifications at a fraction of the power level which HAARP
will transfer to this region. This is extremely important in considering what may
occur with this level of energy. A serious environmental disaster may well be the
result.
The earlier referenced article from 21st Century magazine goes on to
describe the implications of the use of phased array antennas and their potentials at 1
billion watt power levels. This is the antenna array HAARP uses and the level of
power it is designed to broadcast. What the article describes is a system which can be
used for knocking down missiles and aircraft by effecting their guidance systems and
creating atmospheric disturbances which lead to them crashing. They also talk about
the ability, at lower power levels, to be able to look down from the ionosphere and
detect cruise missiles and other incoming objects utilizing what was described as an
advanced form of radar. Again this is exactly what has been described in the HAARP
patents.
Plasma is a term for an electrically conductive state of matter generated from
a gas. It can be created by action of extreme heat, powerful electromagnetic fields and
by high levels of focused radio frequency energy such as the energy created with the
HAARP instrument. 21st Century magazine suggests that, "The term plasmoid refers
to the fact that under certain conditions a plasma can develop a self-contained, selfstabilizing structure based on the magnetic and other effects of internal
configurations of electric currents within the plasma," This particular concept is
important when referring to the concept of "painting the ionosphere" which was
described by the military in the HAARP documents. This is in fact what the military
will do with HAARP for certain applications. These plasmas are much different than
those described in fusion research in that they involve very low electron energies.
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What is known is that although they are "cool" by comparison to fusion plasmas
they are remarkably long lived and strong when generated in certain gases. Those
specific gases include nitrogen and oxygen, the major components of the earth's
atmosphere!
So what does all of this translate into? According to the article it is
suggested that this technology can be used for modifying the ionosphere over very
large areas for "over-the-horizons" telecommunications disruption, creating
computer errors and perhaps even creating negative biological effects. What is
known from other government documents, HAARP planning documents and
International Red Cross documents is that all of this is possible with these new
systems. What is also known now is that a single complex system can combine radar
tracking with a speed-of-light means of destruction - the plasmoid. This is but one
application of HAARP. The writers of the 21st Century article were not acquainted
with the patents regarding HAARP or they would have recognized that the United
States military was not interested in the Russian overture of cooperation because we
already possessed the means to produce these effects. What also rings throughout the
article brings us back to where we began our research into the HAARP system two
years ago - to the ideas of Nikola Tesla.
A New York Times article of December 8, 1915 says:
"Nikola Tesla, the inventor, has filed patent applications on the essential
parts of a machine, possibilities which test a layman's imagination and promise a
parallel of Thor's shooting thunderbolts from the sky to punish those who had
angered the gods...Suffice it to say that the invention will go through space with a
speed of 300 miles a second, a manless ship without propelling engine or wings sent by
electricity to any desired point on the globe on its errand of destruction, if destruction
its manipulator wishes to effect.
'It is not a time, said Dr. Tesla yesterday, 'to go into the details of this thing. It
is founded upon a principle that means great things in peace; it can be used for great
things in war. But I repeat, this is no time to talk of such things.'
'It is perfectly practicable to transmit electrical energy without wires and
produce destructive effects at a distance. I have already constructed a wireless
transmitter which makes this possible, and have described it in my technical
publications, among which I refer to my patent number 1,119,732 recently granted.
With transmitters of this kind we are enabled to project electrical energy in any amount
to any distance and apply it for innumerable purposes, both in war and peace.
Through the universal adoption of this system, ideal conditions for the maintenance of
law and order will be realized, for then the energy necessary to the enforcement of right
and justice will be normally productive, yet potential, and in any moment available, for
attack and defense. The power transmitted need not be necessarily destructive, far, if
distance is made to depend upon it, its withdrawal or supply will bring about the same
results as those now accomplished by force of arms'
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A second article also appeared in the New York Times, on September 22,
1940 and read:
"Nikola Tesla, one of the truly great inventors, who celebrated his
eighty-fourth birthday on July 10, tells the writer that he stands ready to divulge to the
United States government the secret of his 'teleforce', with which, he said, airplane
motors would be melted at a distance of 250 miles, so that an invisible Chinese Wall of
Defense would be built around the country..."
"This 'teleforce', he said, is based upon an entirely new principle of physics
that 'no one has ever dreamed about', different from the principle embodied in his
inventions relating to the transmission of electrical power from a distance, for which
he has received a number of basic patents. This new type of force, Mr. Tesla said, would
operate through a beam one one hundred-millionth of a square centimeter in
diameter, and could be generated from a special plant that would cost no more than
$2,000,000 and would take only about three months to construct."
"The beam, he states, involves four new inventions, two of which already have
been tested. One of these is a method and apparatus for producing rays 'and other
manifestations of energy' in free air, eliminating the necessity for a high vacuum; a
second is a method and process for producing 'very great electrical force'; the third is
a method for amplifying this force and the fourth is a new method for producing 'a
tremendous electrical repelling force'. This would be the projector, or gun, of the
system. The voltage for propelling the beam to its objective, according to the inventor,
will attain a potential of 50,000,000 volts."
"With this enormous voltage, he said, microscopic electrical particles of
matter will be catapulted on their mission of defensive destruction. He has been
working on this invention, he added, for many years and has recently made a number of
improvements in it."
As the ideas reverberate through my mind I cannot help but to feel that we
again are walking down a darkened road of destruction. We are again on a path which
may in fact lead to greater problems than those we seek to solve by tampering with
the ionosphere.
In March 1996 the military begins to demonstrate the earth-penetratingtomography applications of this technology -the idea of "x-raying" the earth with
ELF waves generated by HAARP. These waves will pass through every living thing in
the path and may have perceptible effects on people's health. This demonstration of
this capability is critical for the military to gain the additional funding for the second
phase of their project. That phase was originally estimated at $175 million dollars
and will give the military power levels of 4.7 billion watts of effective radiated
power.
Politically, things are only beginning to move as the opposition to this
project continues to grow. Researchers, independent scientists and most importantly
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lay people, all over the world are beginning to let their ideas be felt on this very
important issue. Elsewhere in this microbook is an essay on creating political
realities. We ask all of our readers to consider taking a step for change and activating
some of the ideas contained in that essay.
LOOKING THROUGH THE EARTH
Radio Tomography of Geologic Strata
By Brooks A. Agnew
When the energy crisis of the 1970's seemed real enough to affect the prices
of crude oil sufficiently to inspire domestic drilling, it seemed everyone wanted to
invest in oil & gas. Drillers resurrected shallow rigs from old Ingersoll Rand units to
even older hammer drillers. Lease speculation was very lucrative. Even owners of
fields of sagebrush or Kentucky fescue were making millions of dollars off high
density drilling - called "checkerboards " by oil drillers - whether they found oil or
not. The people who ended up paying in the long run were the taxpayers. One of the
very nice enticements to invest in oil speculation was the tax break.
This environment meant that there was often funding for new technology
which could offer some advantage over the normal ten percent odds of locating a
wildcat well. Such was the case for a visionary approach to oil and gas exploration.
My theory was that each chemical bond had a resonant frequency which could be
detected and mapped if excited with harmonic wavelengths of radiation at low power
levels. This was already being done with IR spectrometers in some lab instruments,
but no one had ever tried it with harmonic radio waves broadcast into the earth.
The major obstacle to lab testing with radio waves turned out to be the
signal to noise ratio. What inspired me to begin developing this technology in the
summer of 1993 was a phenomenon that occurred while surveying a known oil field
for a new well site. My team and I were using twenty-five watt marine radios with half
wave whip antennae. Normally these radios will reach out ten to fifteen miles without
any trouble. We were within eyesight of each other, say a quarter of a mile apart, and
could not communicate across the oil field. There was a magnetic fissure caused by a
quake or mild plate shift in the petroliferous structure beneath us. The radio signal was
virtually shunted into the ground which silenced the six meter marine radios. The
apparent signal to noise ratio was very high under these conditions. These subtle
magnetic shifts are what dowsers detect with forked sticks or metal rods held loosely
by hand.
I decided right away to quantify the drop in radio frequency (RF) power. I had
a pair of old Yaesu HAM base units that were capable of broadcasting a constant two
meter wave. The broadcasting unit was about five watts sent through a quarter wave
four-element square wave antenna pointed straight into the ground; exactly zero
degrees. The receiving unit was moved at least as far away as the petroliferous
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formation was deep. That is to say, the well pump was about 850 feet deep so we
moved the receiver about 900 feet away from the broadcasting unit. The receiving
antenna was a quarter wave four-element square wave that was mounted on a transit
stand with a precision inclinometer.
Both units were mobile. The broadcasting unit was mounted on a Yamaha
250cc four wheel all terrain vehicle equipped with a two-way radio as well. The
receiving unit was inside a modified four-wheel drive Chevy van and tied to a
spectrographic analyzer that could read out in third octaves. The signal strength was
monitored on a multi range analog dB meter. The phenomenon was verified when the
mobile broadcasting unit passed over the fissure. The signal dropped over 60 dB to
almost absolute silence. I say almost, because there was still something clearly
indicated on the spectrograph.
When the transmitting unit was held stationary pointing directly to the
center of the earth, right over the petroliferous fissure, the receiving unit could scan
from parallel with the ground to about 50 degrees below parallel in line with the
broadcasting unit. The spectrum would change as the receiving antenna was scanned
through the layers of rock, shale, water, gas, oil, or open caves that were beneath the
surface This was remarkable enough to record. What was discovered over the next
three years would confirm the above mentioned theory beyond any reasonable doubt.
The actual depth of the various formations was determined through simple
triangulation. Multiplying the tangent of the receiving angle by the distance away
from the transmitting unit provided the depth of the formation being scanned. A laser
distance meter and an oversized inclinometer proved to be very precise.
Each day our crew would travel to oil fields in the Western Kentucky area.
The transmitting and receiving stations were set up in alternating radii around a
particular well site. The spectrographic information was compared to actual drill
cutting samples obtained each five feet when the hole was originally drilled. After six
months on these sites, we were able to positively identify rock formations by
interpreting the spectra. The variables of reported sun spots, electromagnetic
radiation from high power transmission lines, and all types weather were considered
carefully. The reliability and repeatability of the technique were astonishingly high.
The following year I took the equipment and technology into the field as an
exploration unit for hire. I was convinced the technology was quite robust after the
fifth wildcat well was discovered. There was one instance around Burkesville,
Kentucky that really turned some heads in the local oil and gas industry. My crew was
asked to "survey" a lease that was claimed to have already six operating wells. Upon
arrival at 7:30 AM we observed six well-maintained pumps that were spaced the
mandatory 400 feet across a well-manicured farm field. After walking the area we
decided to scan the very center of the field so the receiving unit was set up about a
thousand feet off the property.
The days are rather long, hot, and humid in Kentucky in the summer. By
8:00 PM on the second day 1 had asked the mobile transmitter to drive a total of about
60 miles around and around this field 1 made about 100 prints of the spectra. There was
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no indication of oil or gas on this property. The entire crew was hot and tired. How
could there be 6 operating wells on this property without any indication from the
readings we were collecting? I personally looked inside each of the six oil tanks and
saw my reflection in the crude oil. What was wrong? We were being paid to report
what we found and I was very nervous about what I saw.
I knew from thousands of hours with this equipment that it did not lie. I
decided to make my report on the data we collected. The land owner and lease holders
were furious. They were relying upon our results to sell another investment group
another well site on this farm. I stood by my report. There was no oil indicated on
this property. Reluctantly our clients paid, and we left. About ten days later I was
recounting this experience with a local geologist. He laughed and expressed his
confidence in out equipment. He informed me that those wells were all fakes. They did
not even have pumps on the end of the steel. The holes on that farm were only about
50 feet deep. The entire scene was fabricated to entice foreigners to invest in drilling
another hole, which of course would be dry. I breathed a long sigh of relief and learned
to believe what I saw in the spectra.
After locating another seven wells in the Coniferous, Warsaw, and Cyprus
formations of Kentucky ranging from 480 to about 1250 feet deep, we accepted
contracts to go exploring in the San Marcus, Texas area. The formations in this
region are volcanic chimneys which are very difficult to locate with seismographic
methods. The sites we examined had many holes where dynamite had been used to set
up shock waves which echo back to geophones. These vibrations can be mapped to
reveal cavities in the substrata. Sometimes these cavities contain oil or gas. These
petroliferous chimneys sometimes are only a few yards in diameter and practically
vertical. This type of formation does not respond well to seismic mapping. We
scanned thousands of acres for about three weeks. The only formation we located had
already been tapped about thirty years prior and exhausted. The explanation 1 offered
the lease holders was. "The oil is where we find it."
The next challenge came in the overthrust area of Wyoming outside
Evanston. The exploration site covered land outside a national park. Our
environmental friendliness allows us to explore anywhere that will allow a 4 wheeler
with a spark arrester. We discouraged this particular oil company from drilling. They
took our advice, and I believe they saved a million dollars. The other well we
examined was a hole being drilled by Quazar. The rig was already seventeen thousand
feet down. This type of rig uses various weights of drill mud to contain high pressure
subterranean releases and carry the cuttings to the surface. Drilling mud is pumped
through the drill steel and is forced to the surface along the clearance between the drill
pipe and the edge of the hole. This mud is closely analyzed by mudloggers who chart
the structures and discoveries. Hydrogen Sulfide alarms set up around the Kelly - the
unit that turns the drill pipe - protect the crew from sudden exposure.
This was the first time the technology had been tested on formations that
deep. We spent one day scanning the site. We spent another day preparing a radio
tomographical map of the strata below their drill rig, Our results were compared to the
mud log. Although we were not allowed to keep a copy of the log, as it did cost the
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investors over a million dollars, I can tell you that each change in formation matched
perfectly. I can also tell you that the hole was dry. This site had been selected using
Landsats satellite photos of the surface of the earth which illuminate fractures and
subterranean fissures and surface gamma ray scanning. The best guess the petroleum
experts could muster was a million dollar dry hole.
Upon returning to Kentucky, I decided to incorporate gamma ray mapping
into the data collection scheme. As it turned out a 4' crystal positioned a few inches
from the ground on the four-wheeler produced timely results. Radon gas migrates up
through the earth from who knows where. It can seep through any geological structure
except petroliferous zones. Like upside down rain, radon gas migrates to the edges of
these zones and then makes its way to the surface. These resulting halos can be
detected with gamma ray mapping. The "dead zones" indicate the presence of
petroleum. The velocities of the gamma collisions with the crystal detector are
directly proportional to the porosity of the rock. This is very important to know. All
the oil pump does is clear the hole of oil that has drained into the hole. If the
formations are too tight the oil will never flow into the hole. Even fracking, a
technique of pumping high pressure sulfuric acid into the target rock formation,
cannot create enough pathways to allow oil to flow if the formation is too tight. We
collected enough data to be able to predict the porosity of the target formation before
the hole was ever drilled. Gamma ray neutron logs taken on site by Haliburton
confirmed many times our ability to predict porosity within 0.5% of their
measurements.
The radio tomographical techniques that I developed are the most accurate
and reliable in the world When the demand for hard-to-find oil or water reserves
becomes high again perhaps this technology will be valuable. As long as our country
wishes to maintain its dependence on foreign erode oil, those who make money
drilling dry holes will only be interested in using this technology as a marketing
device. When the world is ready to find oil, water, natural gas, shale, coal, or even
silver - we scanned a silver mine in Roseburg, Oregon once - this technology will be
here.
HAARP Correlatives
I developed the most accurate and sensitive tomographical scanning
techniques in the world using less than 30 watts of energy. The cumulative resonating
energy from molecular bonds in hundreds of cubic yards of similar material could be
detected and deciphered to reveal a distinctive voice of these compounds. The energy
absorbed by these compounds was not detected. Instead the energy transmitted
through or by these compounds, as a result of subtle and precise radiation, was
interpreted scientifically.
Extrapolations are always exciting. In accounting or business it is the future
gains or profits we love to imagine as we punch in numbers on an imaginary
spreadsheet. In nuclear science, the weapons technology imagined by Fermi,
Oppenheimer, and Einstein were mathematically possible. The actual effects of the
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energy release from critical mass could not be imagined or computed. The frightening
fact is that our government was insanely eager to test the equation. The situation has
come up again.
Mathematically it is possible to stack antennae in a somewhat precise
manner to effectively amplify a radio signal to thousands of times its original source
power. The frequencies broadcasted, as I have proven for over 15 years, have exact
and immediate affects on molecular bonds. When the molecular bond cannot absorb
any more energy, or change it into work, heat builds in a matter of milliseconds. If
this heat is intense enough the bonds comes apart. If the particles come apart with
enough energy, and there is enough nearby mass with which to collide, a chain
reaction begins. Once the activation energy is achieved, like striking a match, the
reaction continues by itself until the source of matter is entirely converted into pure
energy.
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) is designed to
test the effects of billions of watts of concentrated radio energy on the ionosphere of
our planet. Extremely high altitude lenses, formed with billions of cubic yards of
ionic atmospheric particles, are being used to focus radio carrier waves onto the
surface of our planet for military purposes. From my research I know that if the
correct frequency harmonic for that carrier is chosen randomly, the result will be an
absolutely catastrophic release of pure energy. The sky would literally appear to burn.
What cannot be calculated or imagined is how hot the fire would be, or how long it
would burn, or what elements or isotopes would remain after the reaction is complete.
The plain and simple fact is that the risk of scorching every organic
molecule off of several states in a few moments, for the sake of experimenting with a
new weapon, is unacceptable for the world. Only a small handful of scientists in the
world know what is being done by the United States Military with HAARP. The
excitement and zeal of these military children is not checked by the wisdom and
experience of any civilian scientific community. Their experiments are being
conducted and funded in secret. I do not think that the citizens of the world want the
surprise of having half the upper atmosphere turn to flames because the HAARP
technicians didn't stop to think what might happen if a couple of billion watts at the
right frequency were beamed into the ionosphere during a sunstorm.
Our country has been blessed with freedom largely because we have the right
to speak out against injustice or corruption. It seems most of the media have been
bought and paid for by parties who wish to remain in power no matter what the people
think or say. This paper is to inform you that your planet is under assault by absolute
power. We need to have a civilian scientific review and publication of the results of
the HAARP experiments before any more transmissions are conducted.